In: Statistics and Probability
Advertising expenses are a significant component of the cost of goods sold. Listed below is a frequency distribution showing the advertising expenditures for 71 manufacturing companies located in the Southwest. The mean expense is $50.28 million and the standard deviation is $11.46 million. Is it reasonable to conclude the sample data are from a population that follows a normal probability distribution?
Advertising Expense ($Million) Number of Companies
25 up to 35 8
35 up to 45 12
45 up to 55 30
55 up to 65 12
65 up to 75 9
Total 71
A.) State the decision rule. Use the 0.10 significance level. (round 2 decimal places)
H0: The population of advertising expenses follows a normal distribution
H1: The population of advertising expenses does not follow a normal distribution
B.) Compute the value of the chi-square. (round 2 decimal places)
Solution:
A.) State the decision rule. Use the 0.10 significance level.
Answer: The decision rule is:
Where:
7.78 is the critical value at 0.10 significance level for degrees of freedom = n-1=5-1=4
The null and alternative hypotheses are:
H0: The population of advertising expenses follows a normal distribution
H1: The population of advertising expenses does not follow a normal distribution
B.) Compute the value of the chi-square.
Answer: