THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

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THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
A recent survey asked 124 purchasing managers what they thought would happen to inflation over the next quarter.Of those managers who thought the inflation rate would change,73 thought inflation would be higher,while 40 thought it would be lower.
-A production manager is interested in modeling the number of defects in a sheet of steel.After a production run of 260 sheets,the manager finds that the average number of defects per sheet is 1.2.In addition,he records the following frequencies:

Is there evidence at the 5% level of significance that the distribution of defects does not follow the Poisson distribution?

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Definitions:

Instrumental Learning

A type of learning where a behavior is strengthened or weakened, depending on the behavior's consequences, also known as operant conditioning.

Associative Learning

Learning that occurs when a connection is made between two stimuli, or between a stimulus and a response.

Reward or Punishment

Reward or Punishment encompasses the methods used in behavioral psychology to encourage or discourage certain actions or behaviors through the application of positive or negative consequences.

Behavioral Learning

The process through which individuals learn behaviors by observing and responding to their environment, often reinforced by consequences.