Question

A hotel wants to know if there's a relationship between gender and the way customers make room reservations. A manager takes a random sample of 160 reservations. She records whether they were made by a man or a woman, and also records how the reservation was made. She gets the following data: Phone 28 Men Women Fax 9 12 Email 37 29 45 Perform a chi-square significance test of association with a = .05. Be sure to include your null and alternative hypotheses, a justification for the use of this test, your test statistic calculations, your P-value, and your conclusion.

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Here,

H_o: The way of reservation is independent of gender.

H_a: The way of reservation is not independent of gender.

We use a chi square test because we can calculate the expected frequencies for this chart.

Doing an Expected Value Chart,          

         

33.7625   9.7125   30.525  

39.2375   11.2875   35.475

Using chi^2 = Sum[(O - E)^2/E],          

chi^2 =    4.482385929

With df = (a - 1)(b - 1), where a and b are the number of categories of each variable,

a =    3      

b =    2

df =    2

Thus, the critical value is

significance level =    0.05

chi^2(critical) =    5.991464547

Also, the p value is

P =    0.106331579

Thus, comparing chi^2 and chi^2(critical) [or, p and significance level], we   FAIL TO REJECT THE NULL HYPOTHESIS.

Thus, there is no significant evidence that the way of reservation is dependent of gender. [CONCLUSION]