In a College Dining Hall, Students with a Full Meal

question 69

Multiple Choice

In a college dining hall, students with a full meal plan can eat up to four meals each day.The kitchen is now thinking that the meal consumption may more closely resemble a uniform distribution.Reviewing dining hall data over the past week, the following information is compiled. $$\begin{array} { | l | r | r | r | r | r | } \hline \text { Meals } & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & \geq 4 \\\hline \text { Observed frequency } & 287 & 581 & 447 & 290 & 185 \\\hline\end{array}$$ Using $\alpha$ =0.05, the appropriate decision for this goodness of fit test is _______.

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

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