SCENARIO 12-4 A Computer Used by a 24-Hour Banking Service Is Supposed

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Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 12-4
A computer used by a 24-hour banking service is supposed to randomly assign each transaction to one of 5 memory locations.A check at the end of a day's transactions gave the counts shown in the table to each of the 5 memory locations,along with the number of reported errors.
The bank manager wanted to test whether the proportion of errors in transactions assigned to each of the 5 memory locations differ.
-Referring to Scenario 12-4,the degrees of freedom of the test statistic is

• A)4
• B)8
• C)10
• D)448

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