Recently, students in a marketing research class were interested in the driving behavior of students. Specifically, the marketing students were interested if exceeding the speed limit was related to gender. They collected the following responses from 100 randomly selected students: Using the output from Mega stat for the data given, what can you conclude?
A) Gender and speeding are correlated.
B) Gender and speeding are not related, based on the low p-value.
C) Gender and speeding are related, based on the low p-value.
D) The mean of gender equals the mean of speeding.
E) No conclusion is possible.

Question

Recently, students in a marketing research class were interested in the driving behavior of students. Specifically, the marketing students were interested if exceeding the speed limit was related to gender. They collected the following responses from 100 randomly selected students:  Using the output from Mega stat for the data given, what can you conclude?
A) Gender and speeding are correlated. 
B) Gender and speeding are not related, based on the low p-value. 
C) Gender and speeding are related, based on the low p-value. 
D) The mean of gender equals the mean of speeding. 
E) No conclusion is possible.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The output from Mega stat shows a p-value of 0.036, which is less than the standard alpha level of 0.05. This means that there is a significant correlation between gender and speeding, and we can conclude that gender and speeding are related.

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