The United States federal government collects information on Americans who do not have health insurance. Data from 2004 are broken down into 4 regions of the country. These data are summarized in the table provided below. Using this table, answer the following questions.

  1. We wish to investigate the relationship between which two categorical variables?


  2. We wish to investigate if the region in which one lives affects whether or not one has health insurance. Which would be the explanatory variable?