Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780321946393
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, Kathryn A. Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 2PS
The following data represent the responses to two question asked in a survey of 40 college students in business. What is your gender?
(A = Accounting; C = computer information Systems; M = marketing):
a. Tally the data into a
b. Construct contingency tables based on percentages of all 40 student responses, based on row percentages and based on column percentages.
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