An article in The Economist compares divorce procedures in New York to those in England, France, and Germany.23 Suppose the following data are available for these places on numbers of divorces, broken down by whether a prenuptial agreement had been signed.
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New York
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England
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France
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Germany
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Prenuptial agreement
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8,049
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17,139
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3,044
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1,014
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No prenuptial agreement
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75,113
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25,108
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19,800
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16,131
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In light of these data, are the percentages of divorcing couples with prenuptial agreements equal in these four places?