9.S.10 As part of the study of the inheritance pattern of cowpea plants, geneticists classified the...

 

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9.S.10 As part of the study of the inheritance pattern of cowpea plants, geneticists classified the plants in one experiment according to whether the plants had one leaf or three. The data are shown below43: Number of leaves 1 3 Number of plants 74 61 (a) What is the value of the chi-square statistic for testing the null hypothesis that the two types of plants occur with equal probabilities? (b) The P-value for the chi-square test (with a nondirectional alternative) is 0.26. If a = 0.05, what is your conclusion regarding Ho? State your conclusions in the context of the problem. %3D 9.S.10 As part of the study of the inheritance pattern of cowpea plants, geneticists classified the plants in one experiment according to whether the plants had one leaf or three. The data are shown below43: Number of leaves 1 3 Number of plants 74 61 (a) What is the value of the chi-square statistic for testing the null hypothesis that the two types of plants occur with equal probabilities? (b) The P-value for the chi-square test (with a nondirectional alternative) is 0.26. If a = 0.05, what is your conclusion regarding Ho? State your conclusions in the context of the problem. %3D

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