1c. A student has set out to find whether the magnitude of an Earthquake and the damage it creates are statistically linked. To do this they have set up the Hypothesis:
The magnitude of an earthquake has a direct impact on the cost in damages that they produce
The Null Hypothesis is
The magnitude of the earthquake has no impact on the costs of damages that they produce.

Degrees of Freedom
SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL

95%
99%
15
0.441
0.623

Can the student accept or reject the hypothesis? (3)