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(a) What is the level of significance?
(b) Find the value of the chi-square statistic for the sample. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
What are the degrees of freedom?
Transcribed Image Text:The age distribution of the Canadian population and the age distribution of a random sample of 455 residents in the Indian community of a village are shown below.
Observed Number
Age (years)
Percent of Canadian Population
in the Village
Under 5
7.2%
49
5 to 14
13.6%
77
15 to 64
67.1%
279
65 and older
12.1%
50
Use a 5% level of significance to test the claim that the age distribution of the general Canadian population fits the age distribution of the residents of Red Lake Village.
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