You are the sales manager of the FloorMart Department store. You are interested
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Question
You are the sales manager of the FloorMart Department store. You are interested in knowing who will respond to a new end-of-season sales for men’s and women’s clothing and if there is a relationship between the gender and age of the customers. You take a random sample of 100 customers and record the age and gender of the respondents (info found below in the table).
AGE GENDER
Male Female
Less than 20 20 30
20 or more 30 20
At the 5% level of significance, test to see if age and gender are independent.
Explanation / Answer
The statistical software output for this problem is:
Contingency table results:
Rows: Age
Columns: None
Chi-Square test:
Since p - value is less than 0.05, we reject Ho and hence,
We have sufficient evidence to conclude that age and gender are not independent.
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