Does favorite food depend on your gender? A survey asks a group of college students about their favorite foods. It also groups t

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Does favorite food depend on your gender? A survey asks a group of college students about their favorite foods. It also groups t

he students by their gender. The data are recorded in the contingency table below, and a chi-square Test of Independence at the 5% significance level is performed.
Sushi Pizza Hamburgers Row Total
Men 19 16 21 56
Women 19 11 13 43
Column Total 38 27 34 99
The null and alternative hypotheses are:

H0: The two variables are independent, so gender does not affect favorite food.
Ha: The two variables are dependent, so gender does affect favorite food.

Compute the test statistic, rounded to one decimal place.

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