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A school principal would like to know which days of the week students are most likely to be
absent. The principal expects that students will be absent equally during the five-day school
week. The principal selects a random sample of 100 teachers asking them which day of the week
they had the highest number of student absences. The observed and the expected results are
shown in a table below. Based on these results, do the days for the highest number of absences
occur with equal frequencies? (Use a 5% significant level)

Mon Tue Wed Thurs Fri

Observed Absences 23 16 14 19 28
Expected Absences 20 20 20 20 20

a. The null hypothesis 𝐻𝐻0: equal frequencies

b. The alternative hypothesis 𝐻𝐻𝑎𝑎: unequal frequencies
c. The level of significance 𝛼𝛼 = 0.05
d. The degrees of freedom: n − 1 = 5 − 1 = 4
e. The test statistic: 6.3
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20
f. The critical value: 9.49
g. Decision: Accept the null hypothesis that the data is the days of the highest number of absences
occur with relatively equal frequencies.