A study regarding the relationship between age and the amount of pressure sales personnel feel in relation to their jobs revealed the following sample information. At the 0.1 significance level, is there a relationship between job pressure and age:

Age(years)....................low.............medium................high
less than 25...................20.................18.....................22
25 up to 40....................50.................46.....................44
40 up to 60.....................58................63.....................59
60 and older...................34.................43.....................43


a. State the null and alternate hypotheses.
H0: _______________________
H1: _______________________
b. State the decision rule. __________
c. Compute the value of the test statistic. _______________
d. What is your decision regarding the null hypothesis? ____________________

Respuesta :

Answer and Step-by-step explanation:

a) H o : there is no relation between job pressure and age

H 1: there is a relation between job pressure and age

b) See file attached.

c) Test statistic: For the given categorical data, we apply the x² — test Test statistic is 2.19

d) The test statistic value x² = 2.19 < 16.81, we accept the null hypothesis. Therefore, we conclude that there is no relationship between job pressure and age.

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