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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38. Comparing grades and goals.

  1. One thing we know for sure is that, as students get older, they get more serious and grades get more important to them (don't they?). So we would expect that the variables grade and goals would be dependent, wouldn't we? Is this borne out by looking at the data?
  2. Perform the test for independence, using level of significance .