Are Southern and Western states equally prone to fatal lightning strikes? The National Weather Service maintains a database that provides information on lightning strike fatalities by state. The number of lightning strike fatalities from 2010 to 2014 for Southern and Western states are shown as follows. (National Weather Service website, April 2015)

Use α = .05 and test to determine whether the distribution of lightning fatalities is the same for these two regions. What is your conclusion?

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Southern State Fatalities Western State AZ Fatalities an FL GA KY LA MS NC OK SC TN TX VA 17 ID MT NM Ny OR UT WA WY 4 13