1. A prison administrator is interested in examining therelationships between the type of prison security (maximum, medium,and minimum) and the number of previous offenses committed by aninmate. He believes that maximum security prisons have inmates withmany prior offenses, medium security with not so many offenses, andminimum security with almost no prior offenses. He randomly selectseight new inmates from each of the three security levels andcompares the number of offenses for which they have ever beencharged.
a) What is the independent variable?
b) What is the dependent variable?
c) What is the null hypothesis?
d) What is the research hypothesis?
e) Interpret the results.
| Maximum | Medium | Minimum | |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | |
| 5 | 6 | 2 | |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | |
| 7 | 6 | 1 | |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | |
