Question

QUESTION 20 The market research group of a manufacturer of computing equipment believes that the piece of equipment people purchase is related to the highest college degree that they earned. To determine if this belief is true, the firm surveyed a sample of 600 buyers with different degrees to determine whether they purchased a desktop, laptop, or tablet computer. They organized the data along two categorical variables: first, type of equipment - desktop, laptop, or tablet; second, type of degree - undergraduate or graduate. The results are given in the following table. Highest Degree Undergraduate Graduate Desktop 75 120 Laptop 50 85 Tablet 175 95 Based on your answers to Questions 18 and 19, your decision is to Accept Ho. (True or False) True False

Answer 1

To test

Ho: piece of equipment people purchase is not related with college degree

H1: piece of equipment people purchase is related with college degree they earned

Here we use chi-sqaure test of independence

Test statistics=43.162

degrees of freedom= 2

p-value = 0.0000

since p-value is extremely small ,the decision we reject the null hypothesis

####Answer ::: False