Anita Cruz Recently Assumed Responsibility for a Large Investment Portfolio

Anita Cruz recently assumed responsibility for a large investment portfolio. She wonders whether industry sector influences investment objective. Her staff prepared the following contingency table from a random sample of 200 common stocks: Anita's null hypothesis is ___.

A) "investment objective" is related to "industry sector"
B) "investment objective" influences "industry sector"
C) "investment objective" is not independent of "industry sector"
D) "investment objective" is independent of "industry sector"
E) "growth" and "income" are independent