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Solved: Multiple choice: Select the best answer for Exercises 27 to 34. Exercises 27 to
Chapter 1, Problem 33(choose chapter or problem)
Multiple choice: Select the best answer for Exercises 27 to 34. Exercises 27 to 30 refer to the following setting. The National Survey of Adolescent Health interviewed several thousand teens (grades 7 to 12). One question asked was What do you think are the chances you will be married in the next ten years? Here is a two-way table of the responses by gender:18 Female Male Almost no chance 119 103 Some chance, but probably not 150 171 A 50-50 chance 447 512 A good chance 735 710 Almost certain 1174 762 In the 20102011 season, the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA championship. The two-way table below displays the relationship between the outcome of each game in the regular season and whether the Mavericks scored at least 100 points. 100 or more points Fewer than 100 points Total Win 43 14 57 Loss 4 21 25 Total 47 35 82 Which of the following is the best evidence that there is an association between the outcome of a game and whether or not the Mavericks scored at least 100 points? (a) The Mavericks won 57 games and lost only 25 games. (b) The Mavericks scored at least 100 points in 47 games and fewer than 100 points in only 35 games. (c) The Mavericks won 43 games when scoring at least 100 points and only 14 games when scoring fewer than 100 points. (d) The Mavericks won a higher proportion of games when scoring at least 100 points (43/47) than when they scored fewer than 100 points (14/35). (e) The combination of scoring 100 or more points and winning the game occurred more often (43 times) than any other combination of outcomes.
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Multiple choice: Select the best answer for Exercises 27 to 34. Exercises 27 to 30 refer to the following setting. The National Survey of Adolescent Health interviewed several thousand teens (grades 7 to 12). One question asked was What do you think are the chances you will be married in the next ten years? Here is a two-way table of the responses by gender:18 Female Male Almost no chance 119 103 Some chance, but probably not 150 171 A 50-50 chance 447 512 A good chance 735 710 Almost certain 1174 762 In the 20102011 season, the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA championship. The two-way table below displays the relationship between the outcome of each game in the regular season and whether the Mavericks scored at least 100 points. 100 or more points Fewer than 100 points Total Win 43 14 57 Loss 4 21 25 Total 47 35 82 Which of the following is the best evidence that there is an association between the outcome of a game and whether or not the Mavericks scored at least 100 points? (a) The Mavericks won 57 games and lost only 25 games. (b) The Mavericks scored at least 100 points in 47 games and fewer than 100 points in only 35 games. (c) The Mavericks won 43 games when scoring at least 100 points and only 14 games when scoring fewer than 100 points. (d) The Mavericks won a higher proportion of games when scoring at least 100 points (43/47) than when they scored fewer than 100 points (14/35). (e) The combination of scoring 100 or more points and winning the game occurred more often (43 times) than any other combination of outcomes.
ANSWER:Step 1 of 2
The given data is
We need to check which condition satisfies the association between the result of the game and the fact that Maverick scored at least 100 points.