An article published in USA Today asserts that many children are abandoning outdoor for indoor activities. The National Sporting Goods Association annual survey compared activity levels to the levels found nine years earlier. A random selection of children (7- to 11-year-olds) indicating their favorite outdoor activity is given in the following table:

Construct a contingency analysis to determine if the type of preferred outdoor activity is dependent on the year in this survey. Use a significance level of 0.05 and the p -value approach.

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Bicycling Swimming Baseball Fishing Touch Football Earlier 68 Presen 47 29 22 25 18 60 16 10