The Following Table Shows the Number of Individuals in a Sample

question 40

Multiple Choice

The following table shows the number of individuals in a sample of 300 who indicated they support the new tax proposal. $$\begin{array} { l l } \text { Political Party } & \text { Support } \\\text { Democrats } & 100 \\\text { Republicans } & 120 \\\text { Independents } & 80\end{array}$$ We are interested in determining whether or not the opinions of the individuals of the three groups are uniformly distributed.The calculated value for the test statistic equals

• A) 2.
• B) 4.
• C) 0.
• D) 8.

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