A Company Wants to Determine If Its Employees Have Any $\chi ^ { 2 }$

question 27

Multiple Choice

A company wants to determine if its employees have any preference among 5 different health plans which it offers to them. A sample of 200 employees provided the data below. Calculate the chi -square test statistic $\chi ^ { 2 }$ to test the claim that the probabilities show no preference. Use $\alpha = 0.01$ .
$\begin{array}{l|cllll}\text { Plan } & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\\hline \text { Employees } & 18 & 65 & 32 & 30 & 55\end{array}$

• A) \(37.45\)
• B) \(45.91\)
• C) \(48.91\)
• D) \(55.63\)

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