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11.3 Exercise 3

Avg difficulty 2.5

A factory manager needs to understand how many products are defective versus how many are produced. The number of expected defects is listed in the table.

Number produced Number defective
0–100 5
101–200 6
201–300 7
301–400 8
401–500 10

A random sample was taken to determine the actual number of defects. the table shows the results of the survey.

Number produced Number defective
0–100 5
101–200 7
201–300 8
301–400 9
401–500 11

State the null and alternative hypotheses needed to conduct a goodness-of-fit test, and state the degrees of freedom.

OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics 2e, 11.3 Goodness-of-Fit Test, exercise 3

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