Anita Cruz Recently Assumed Responsibility for a Large Investment Portfolio $\alpha$

question 73

Multiple Choice

Anita Cruz recently assumed responsibility for a large investment portfolio.She wonders whether industry sector influences investment objective.Her staff prepared the following contingency table from a random sample of 200 common stocks.
Using $\alpha$ = .01,appropriate decision is ______________.

• A)reject the null hypothesis and conclude the two variables are not independent
• B)reject the null hypothesis and conclude the two variables are independent
• C)do not reject the null hypothesis and conclude the two variables are not independent
• D)do not reject the null hypothesis and conclude the two variables are independent
• E)do nothing