Preferences for the Type of Diet Drink from a Random

question 81

Multiple Choice

Preferences for the type of diet drink from a random sample of 121 shoppers are in the table below.A researcher is interested in determining if there is a relationship between the type of diet drink preferred and the age of the shoppers. Using α = .025,what is the critical value of the test statistic that you would use in a decision rule to test an appropriate hypothesis?

• A) 5.02
• B) 5.99
• C) 7.38
• D) 14.45

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Group-Aided Decision Making

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