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A researcher wants to investigate if there is a relationship between the blood pressure level and the type of diabetes of diabetic patients. He selects 60 diabetic patients at random and classifies them according to their blood pressure level and type of diabetes.

	Low Blood Pressure	Normal Blood Pressure	High Blood Pressure
Type I Diabetes	14	18	8
Type II Diabetes	5	6	9

For this data,

1. What is the appropriate test for this information (ANOVA, goodness-of-fit, test of independence or test of homogeneity)? Explain briefly. [2]
2. What is the distribution of the test statistic? How many degrees of freedom does it have?[2]
3. Write down the hypotheses being tested by the test statistic. [2]
4. Find the critical value(s) for this test, using a significance level of . [1]
5. What do you conclude from this test? [2]

Answer 1