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1. A company operates four machines during three shifts each day. From production records, the data in the table below were collected. At the .05 level of significance test to determine if the number ... of breakdowns is independent of the shift. Machine Shift A B C D 1 41 20 12 16 2 31 11 9 14 3 15 17 16 10 . The data presented in the table below resulted from an experiment in which seeds of 5 different types were planted and the number of seeds that germinated within 5 weeks after planting was recorded for each seed type. At the .01 level of significance, is the proportion of seeds that germinate dependent on the seed type? Seed Type Observed Frequencies Germinated Failed to Germinate 1 31 7 2 57 33 3 87 60 4 52 44 5 10 19 . An agent for a residential real estate company in a large city would like to be able to predict the monthly rental cost of apartments based on the size of the apartment. Data for a sample of 25 apartments in a particular neighborhood are provided in the worksheet Apartments in the Excel workbook Apartments.xlsx. Apartments.xlsx At the .05 level of significance determine if the correlation between rental cost and apartment size is significant. . The marketing manager of a large supermarket chain would like to use shelf space to predict the sales of pet food. For a random sample of 12 similar stores, she gathered the following information regarding the shelf space, in feet, devoted to pet food and the weekly sales in hundreds of dollars. . Is the correlation between weekly sales and shelf space significant at the .01 level of significance? Store 1 2 3 4 5 6 Shelf Space 5 5 5 10 10 10 Weekly Sales 1.6 2.2 1.4 1.9 2.4 2.6 Store 7 8 9 10 11 12 Shelf Space 15 15 15 20 20 20 Weekly Sales 2.3 2.7 2.8 2.6 2.9 3.1 Compute the value of the sample correlation coefficient between weekly sales and shelf space. [Show More]

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