If you perform a chi-square test on data collected on religion and median income of residents in a certain county, and you calculate a test statistic of 6.74, and look up a critical value of 5.99 in the chi-square table, what would your hypothesis conclusion be? please provide your answer in the rich text box. a religion is more important that median income b religion and median income are independent c religion and median income are dependent d none of the above

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Compare the test statistic with the critical value: 6.74 > 5.99

This means that the p-value (the probability that the two variables are independent) is between 0.05 and 0.01; since p<0.05 we can say that the two variables are independent.

Therefore the correct answer is: B) religion and median income are independent.