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Question: Each person in a group of 300 students was identified as male or female and then asked whether he or she preferred taking liberal arts courses in the area of math science, social science, or humanities. The table below is a contingency table that shows the frequencies found for these categories.

Gender Math Science (M-S) Social Science (SS) Humanities (H) Total
Male (M) 37 41 44 122
Female (F) 35 72 71 178
Total 72 113 115 300

Does this sample present sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis “preference for math science, social science, or humanities is independent of the gender of a college student” at the 0.05 level of significance?

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