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A teacher figure that final grades in the statistics department are distributed as A,25%, B, 25%, C, 40%, D, 5%, F, 5%. At the end of the randomly selected semester, the following number grades were recorded. Use the Goodness-of-Fit test to determine if the grade distribution for the department is different than expected. State your hypothesis, complete the table to determine your test statistic, draw your curve, label your critical values and your test statistic, state your decision to accept or reject and write your conclude in the language of the problem. Use a=0.01

Grade A B C D F
Number 36 42 60 8 14

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Step by step method for testing the hypothesis under 5 step approach is discussed here. Excel template for each problem is also included. This template can be used to obtain the answers of similar problems.

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Goodness of Fit

A teacher figure that final grades in the statistics department are distributed as A,25%, B, 25%, C, 40%, D, 5%, F, 5%. At the end of the randomly selected semester, the following number grades were recorded. Use the Goodness-of-Fit test to determine if the grade distribution for the department is different than expected. State your hypothesis, complete the ...

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