Students applying for admission to an MBA program must submit scores from the GMAT test, which includes a verbal and a quantitative component. Shown here are raw scores for 100 randomly chosen MBA applicants at a Midwestern, public, AACSB-accredited business school. Research question: At α = .005, is the quantitative score independent of the verbal score?

Quantitativwe Verbal Under 25 25 to 34 35 or More Col Total Under 25 25 4 25 to 34 9 28 35 or More Row Total 35 50 15 100 18 30 40 30