Question

1. Utilizing the data shown in the contingency table 1 below, determine whether the relationship between types of residential area and gun ownership is statistically significant. Once you have arrived at an answer for each question, please write a sentence or two interpreting the results, you may want to round the decimals to the nearest whole number (70 pts.).

1. 1. What are the alternative and null hypotheses (5pts)?
2. 2. Calculate the total column percentages (10pts.)

Gun Ownership	Types of Residential Area
	Rural	Town	City	Total
Own Gun	218	206	131	555 (         %)
No Gun	375	379	235	989 (           %)
Total	593	585	366	1544 (           %)

Answer 1