TABLE 12-6 According to an Article in Marketing News, Fewer Checks Are

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TABLE 12-6
According to an article in Marketing News, fewer checks are being written at the grocery store checkout than in the past. To determine whether there is a difference in the proportion of shoppers who pay by check among three consecutive years at a 0.05 level of significance, the results of a survey of 500 shoppers in three consecutive years are obtained and presented below.

-Referring to Table 12-6, what is the expected number of shoppers who pay by check in year 1 if there is no difference in the proportion of shoppers who pay by check among the three years?

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