A researcher is studying robbery rates across cities of different size. He gathers robbery data on a random sample of large metropolitan cities and on a random sample of smaller urban areas. Which test would he use to find out whether there is a relationship between city size and robbery rates?

A. independent samples t test
B. dependent samples t test
C. matched pairs t test
D. none of these; t tests are not appropriate for rates


A. independent samples t test

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