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Question 24

A sociologist is investigating whether there is any correlation between the number of hours a week a person spends commuting and that person's reported level of job satisfaction.

She takes a random sample of 40 people and obtains a product moment correlation coefficient of -0.345.

The table below gives the critical values of the product moment correlation coefficient for a sample of size 40.

Two-tailed significance level: 10%, 5%, 2%, 1%

Critical value: 0.2638, 0.3120, 0.3665, 0.4026

a.

State suitable null and alternative hypotheses for the sociologist's test.

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b.

Carry out the hypothesis test at the 5% significance level.

[3]
c.

Determine every significance level in the table at which the null hypothesis would be rejected, justifying your answer.

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