The board of trustees of a small college demanded a more diverse student body. M

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The board of trustees of a small college demanded a more diverse student body. Most of the college's minority students came from a large metropolitan area. The admissions staff asked graduates outside this are and outside the state to help with recruiting. In addition, some money was spent on media advertising. To assess the effect of this campaign, the current year's requests for applications were classifies as Large Metro area (565), Rest of State (410), and Out of State (216). Aanalysis of addresses over previous years showed Lare Metro are, 51%; Rest of State, 40%, Out of state, 9%. what statistic should be used to analyze these data? a) The X2 for independence b) the X2 for goodness of fit c)The Kruskai-Wallis H d) the Mann-Whitney U

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To asses the effectiveness of campaign

H0: Effectiveness of campaign is independent of the area

Ha: Effectiveness depends on area

Hence test to be done is

a) The X2 for independence

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