Use Minitab or Excel for each of Exercises 34–38.

Goals of Middle School Students. Open the Goals data set. The subjects are students in grades 4, 5, and 6, from three school districts in Michigan. The students were asked which of the following was most important to them: good grades, athletic ability, or popularity. Information about the students' age, gender, race, and grade was also gathered, as well as whether their school was in an urban, suburban, or rural setting.8

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37. Comparing goals and school setting.

  1. Looking at the data, do you think that the setting of the school (urban, suburban, or rural) affects the goals of the students? Or do you think that it has no effect? In other words, do you think that the variables urb_rur and goals are independent or dependent?
  2. Perform the test for independence, using level of significance .

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(a) Dependent (b) Since the -value , -value . Thus we reject . There is evidence that urb_rural and goals are dependent.