A Suburban Realtor Is Studying Commuter Time in the Houston $\alpha$

question 53

Multiple Choice

A suburban realtor is studying commuter time in the Houston metropolitan area.She has been told the average weekday travel time from a southern suburb at 8:00am is 45 minutes.For five months she counts the number of days that it takes her more than 45 minutes to arrive in downtown when she leaves her house at 8:00am.She expects the data are uniformly distributed across the five months.Her sample of observed data yields the following frequencies 9 days, 15 days, 8 days, 11 days, 12 days.Using $\alpha$ = .01, the critical chi-square value is _______.

• A)13.277
• B)15.086
• C)7.779
• D)11.070
• E)2.727

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