Question

A sample of 80 households was randomly selected from the home owners in Columbia, Missouri, and an ndependent sample of 120 households was randomly selected from the home owners in St. Louis, MO. For each household, a yes or no response was obtained to the question: Would you support a 5% increase in property tax to improve the quality of primary and secondary education in the city? The responses are given below (artificial data): Columbia St. Louis Yes 37 47 73 120 No(or Not sure) 43 Perform a test of the nul hypothesis that there is no association between the cities and support rate for the tax increase (i.e.,the proportions of homeowners who would support the tax increase are the same in the two cities). Report your test statistic, P-value, and conclusion at α .05

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