Test the hypothesis that smoking and lung cancer

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A randomly chosen group of 20,000 nonsmokers and one of 10,000 smokers were followed over a 10-year period. The following data relate the numbers of them that developed lung cancer during that period.

Smokers		Nonsmokers	Total
Lung cancer	62	14	76
No lung cancer	9,938	19,986	29,924
Total	10,000	20,000	30,000

Test the hypothesis that smoking and lung cancer are independent. Use the 1 percent level of significance.

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