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Chapter 11: Q 9. (page 718)

Munching Froot Loops Kellogg’s Froot Loops cereal comes in six colors:

orange, yellow, purple, red, blue, and green. Charise randomly selected 120 loops and noted the color of each. Here are her data:

Do these data provide convincing evidence at the 5% significance level that Kellogg’s Froot Loops do not contain an equal proportion of each color?

Short Answer

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There is insufficient evidence to refute Kellogg's assertion that its Froot Loop includes an equal quantity of each flavor.

Step by step solution

01

Given information

Significance level: 5% = 0.05

02

Concept

Null hypothesis: H0

When the value of P is less than or equal to the significance level, the null hypothesis is rejected.

03

Explanation

The Pvalue is used to calculate the likelihood of a test statistic or a more extreme number.

The P-value in the appendix, which contains the X2value in the row df=5may be found in the chi-square distribution table.

0.15<P<0.20

When the value of Pis not less than or equal to the significance level, the null hypothesis is not rejected.

P>0.05: fail to reject H0

Hence, There is insufficient evidence to disprove the company's assertion that Kellogg's produces Froot Loop.

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