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Chapter 14.1, Problem 3E
It is hypothesized that when homing pigeons are disoriented in a certain manner, they will exhibit no preference for any direction of flight after takeoff (so that the direction X should be uniformly distributed on the interval from 0° to 360°). To test this, 120 pigeons are disoriented, let loose, and the direction of flight of each is recorded; the resulting data follows. Use the chi-squared test at level .10 to see whether the data supports the hypothesis.
| Direction | 0−<45° | 45−<90° | 90−<135° |
| Frequency | 12 | 16 | 17 |
| Direction | 135 − < 180° | 180−<225° | 225−<270° |
| Frequency | 15 | 13 | 20 |
| Direction | 270−<315° | 315−<360° |
| Frequency | 17 | 10 |
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