A political poll asked potential voters if they felt the eco

A political poll asked potential voters if they felt the economy was going to get worse, stay the same, or get better during the next 12 months. The party affiliations of the respondents were also noted. To determine if Party Affiliation and Response are dependent, what are the appropriate hypotheses?

Question 2 options:

Solution

As we are trying to test the dependence of response on party affiliation of voters, so the claim being tested is -

H_A : Party Affiliation and Response are associated with each other.

And the assumption made is that they are independent. So -

H₀ : Party Affiliation and Response are independent of one another.

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So, option (3) is correct.