Dr. Pagels is a mammalogist who studies meadow and common voles. He frequently traps the moles and has noticed what appears to be a preference for a peanut butter-oatmeal mixture by the meadow voles vs apple slices are usually used in traps, where the common voles seem to prefer the apple slices. So he conducted a study where he used a peanut butter-oatmeal mixture in half the traps and the normal apple slices in his remaining traps to see if there was a food preference between the two different voles. Indicate which of the following is the null hypothesis, and which is the alternate hypothesis. There food preferences among vole species are independent of one another. There is a relationship between voles and food preference. To test for independence, we need to calculate the Chi-square statistic. These are the data that Dr. Pagels collected: meadow voles common voles apple slices 15 21 peanut butter-oatmeal 25 16

Dr. Pagels is a mammalogist who studies meadow and common voles. He frequently traps the moles and has noticed what appears to be a preference for a peanut butter-oatmeal mixture by the meadow voles vs apple slices are usually used in traps, where the common voles seem to prefer the apple slices. So he conducted a study where he used a peanut butter-oatmeal mixture in half the traps and the normal apple slices in his remaining traps to see if there was a food preference between the two different voles. Indicate which of the following is the null hypothesis, and which is the alternate hypothesis. There food preferences among vole species are independent of one another. There is a relationship between voles and food preference. To test for independence, we need to calculate the Chi-square statistic. These are the data that Dr. Pagels collected: meadow voles common voles apple slices 15 21 peanut butter-oatmeal 25 16

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Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL

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Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability

Section11.4: Collecting Data

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