Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Exercise 47

For Problems 5-14, please provide the following information.
(a) What is the level of significance State the null and alternate hypotheses.
(b) Find the value of the chi-square statistic for the sample. Are all the expected frequencies greater than 5 What sampling distribution will you use What are the degrees of freedom
(c) Find or estimate the P -value of the sample test statistic.
(d) Based on your answers in parts (a)-(c), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis that the population fits the specified distribution of categories
(e) Interpret your conclusion in the context of the application.
Census: California The accuracy of a census report on a city in southern California was questioned by some government officials. A random sample of 1215 people living in the city was used to check the report, and the results are shown next:

Using a 1% level of significance, test the claim that the census distribution and the sample distribution agree.