Question 454120
A survey by USA Today investigated the public's attitude toward the federal deficit. Each sampled citizen was classified as to whether they felt the government should reduce the deficit, increase the deficit, or if they had no opinion. The sample results of the study by gender are reported below.
Gender	Reduce the Deficit	Increase the Deficit	No Opinion
Female	244	194	68
Male	305	114	25

At the .05 significance level, is it reasonable to conclude that gender is independent of a person's position on the deficit?

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Ho: row and column factors are independent
Ha: they are dependent
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I ran a Chi-Sq test on the 2 by 3 matrix and got the following;
Chi-Sq = 43.578...
p-value = 0.0000000003445
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Since the p-value is less than 1%, reject Ho 
at the 1% level of significance.
The test result does not support the independence
of the factors; it supports the conclusion that
gender and position are dependent.
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Cheers,
Stan H.