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A poll surveyed people in six countries to assess attitudes toward a variety of alternate forms of energy. Suppose the data in the following table are a portion of the poll's findings concerning whether people favor or oppose the building of new nuclear power plants.
Response | Country | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Great Britain |
France | Italy | Spain | Germany | United States |
|
Strongly favor | 141 | 133 | 128 | 161 | 298 | 204 |
Favor more than oppose | 348 | 222 | 272 | 367 | 309 | 326 |
Oppose more than favor | 381 | 311 | 322 | 334 | 219 | 316 |
Strongly oppose | 217 | 443 | 389 | 215 | 220 | 174 |
(a)
How large was the sample in this poll?
(b)
Conduct a hypothesis test to determine whether people's attitude toward building new nuclear power plants is independent of country.
State the null and alternative hypotheses.
H0: The attitude toward building new nuclear
power plants is mutually exclusive of the country.
Ha: The attitude toward building new nuclear
power plants is not mutually exclusive of the
country.H0: The attitude toward building new
nuclear power plants is not mutually exclusive of the
country.
Ha: The attitude toward building new nuclear
power plants is mutually exclusive of the
country. H0: The
attitude toward building new nuclear power plants is not
independent of the country.
Ha: The attitude toward building new nuclear
power plants is independent of the country.H0:
The attitude toward building new nuclear power plants is
independent of the country.
Ha: The attitude toward building new nuclear
power plants is not independent of the country.
Find the value of the test statistic. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
Find the p-value. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
p-value =
State your conclusion.
Do not reject H0. We conclude that the attitude toward building new nuclear power plants is not independent of the country.Do not reject H0. We cannot conclude that the attitude toward building new nuclear power plants is independent of the country. Reject H0. We conclude that the attitude toward building new nuclear power plants is not independent of the country.Reject H0. We cannot conclude that the attitude toward building new nuclear power plants is independent of the country.
(c)
Using the percentage of respondents who "strongly favor" and "favor more than oppose," which country has the most favorable attitude toward building new nuclear power plants?
Great BritainFrance ItalySpainGermanyUnited States
Which country has the least favorable attitude?
Great BritainFrance ItalySpainGermanyUnited States
a)
6450
b)
H0: The attitude toward building new nuclear
power plants is independent of the country.
Ha: The attitude toward building new nuclear
power plants is not independent of the country.
applying chi square test:
Expected | Ei=row total*column total/grand total | e | f | g | h | i | j | Total |
a | 179.4814 | 183.1140 | 183.4442 | 177.8302 | 172.7116 | 168.4186 | 1065 | |
b | 310.7640 | 317.0536 | 317.6254 | 307.9051 | 299.0425 | 291.6093 | 1844 | |
c | 317.3366 | 323.7592 | 324.3431 | 314.4172 | 305.3671 | 297.7767 | 1883 | |
d | 279.4180 | 285.0732 | 285.5873 | 276.8474 | 268.8788 | 262.1953 | 1658 | |
total | 1087 | 1109 | 1111 | 1077 | 1046 | 1020 | 6450 | |
chi square χ2 | =(Oi-Ei)2/Ei | e | f | g | h | i | j | Total |
a | 8.2505 | 13.7150 | 16.7575 | 1.5928 | 90.8866 | 7.5172 | 138.7197 | |
b | 4.4616 | 28.4974 | 6.5539 | 11.3418 | 0.3316 | 4.0558 | 55.2421 | |
c | 12.7720 | 0.5028 | 0.0169 | 1.2197 | 24.4273 | 1.1152 | 40.0539 | |
d | 13.9433 | 87.4894 | 37.4463 | 13.8167 | 8.8855 | 29.6665 | 191.2477 | |
total | 39.4275 | 130.2046 | 60.7746 | 27.9710 | 124.5310 | 42.3548 | 425.2634 |
value of the test statistic X2 =425.26
p value = | 0.0000 |
Reject H0. We cannot conclude that the attitude toward building new nuclear power plants is independent of the country.
c)
most favorable attitude : Germany
least favorable attitude France