Is there a relationship between marital status and happiness? The data in Table 4 show the marital status and happiness of individuals who participated in the General Social Survey. Compute the expected counts within each cell, assuming that marital status and happiness are independent.

Approach 

Step 1 Compute the row and column totals.

Step 2 Compute the relative marginal frequencies for the row variable and column variable.

Step 3 Use the Multiplication Rule for Independent Events to compute the expected proportion of observations within each cell, assuming independence.

Step 4 Multiply the proportions by 2985, the sample size, to obtain the expected counts within each cell.