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The Gravy Company has decided to launch a new advertisement campaign in grocery stores to promote their products. The idea is to put small signs in the meat section (next to the Turkey, Ham, etc.) which read, "Get on board to the gravy train! The company wonders whether the different groups of consumers who eat different meats also have different gravy preferences. The table below is from a random sample of college students. The row denotes whether the student's family has gravy at Thanksgiving or not. The column denotes the type of meat served.
meat | chicken | ham | don't know | other | roast beef | tofurkey | turducken | turkey | total |
no | 2 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 45 | 82 |
yes | 10 | 24 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 814 | 892 |
total | 12 | 29 | 5 | 35 | 11 | 20 | 3 | 859 | 974 |
Formulate a set of hypotheses to test whether the two variables are independent or dependent and perform the test.