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Chapter 11: T11.11 (page 765)

A large distributor of gasoline claims that 60%of all drivers stopping at their service stations choose regular unleaded gas and that premium and supreme are each selected 20%of the time. To investigate this claim, researchers collected data from a random sample of drivers who put gas in their vehicles at the distributor’s service stations in a large city. The results were as follows.

Carry out a test of the distributor’s claim at the 5%significance level.

Short Answer

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There is sufficient evidence to support the claim that the distribution of type of gas purchased is not what the distributor claims, thus reject H0..

Step by step solution

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Step 1. Given information

Given:

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Step 2. Calculation

Hypotheses:

H0:pregular=0.6,ppremium=0.2,psupreme=0.2

Ha:At least one of the proportions is incorrect.

Conditions:

SRS: A random sample was used.

Independent: it seems reasonable that there would be more than 400people who stop at this gas station over a long period of time.

Count: the expected counts are 240,80,80, all of which are at least 5.

Chi square test for μ1-μ2,

x2=13.15,P-value=0.0014,df=2

Thus, α=0.050.0014<0.05

Therefore, There is sufficient evidence to support the claim that the distribution of type of gas purchased is not what the distributor claims, thus rejectH0.

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