SCENARIO 12-13 Recent Studies Have Found That American Children Are More Obese

question 169

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 12-13
Recent studies have found that American children are more obese than in the past. The amount of time children spent watching television has received much of the blame. A survey of 100 ten-yearolds revealed the following with regards to weights and average number of hours a day spent watching television. We are interested in testing whether the mean number of hours spent watching TV and weights are independent at 1% level of significance.
-Referring to Scenario 12-12,suppose we want to constrain the probability of committing a Type I error to 5% when testing whether there is any relationship between average time spent watching TV and average time spent reading story books,the critical value will be

• A)5.991
• B)7.378
• C)12.592
• D)14.449

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Definitions:

Olfactory Mucosa

The specialized epithelial tissue inside the nasal cavity that houses the olfactory receptors, crucial for the sense of smell.

Taste Receptors

Specialized sensory cells located on the tongue that are responsible for detecting different types of tastes, such as sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

Supertasters

Individuals who have a heightened sense of taste, often due to a greater number of taste buds on their tongue.