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

question 58

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 $\alpha$ = .10, the appropriate decision is _______.

• A)do not reject the null hypothesis that the observed distribution is uniform
• B)do not reject the null hypothesis that the observed distribution is not uniform
• C)reject the null hypothesis that the observed distribution is uniform
• D)reject the null hypothesis that the observed distribution is not uniform
• E)do nothing

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