The airline industry defines no- shows as passengers who have purchased a ticket but fail to arrive at the gate on time for departure. Southwest Airlines operates many flights from Philadelphia to Dallas and experienced the following no- show probability distribution last year.
$$\begin{array} { l | l | l | l | l | l | l | l }
\text { No-shows } & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 \
\hline \text { Probability } & 6 \% & 12 \% & 22 \% & 28 \% & 17 \% & 11 \% & 4 \%
\end{array}$$
The following data represent the number of no-show has changed between last year on flights between these cities using ?=0.05. The degrees of freedom for the critical value is _____

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The airline industry defines no- shows as passengers who have purchased a ticket but fail to arrive at the gate on time for departure. Southwest Airlines operates many flights from Philadelphia to Dallas and experienced the following no- show probability distribution last year.
$$\begin{array} { l | l | l | l | l | l | l | l } 
\text { No-shows } & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 \
\hline \text { Probability } & 6 \% & 12 \% & 22 \% & 28 \% & 17 \% & 11 \% & 4 \%
\end{array}$$
The following data represent the number of no-show has changed between last year on flights between these cities using ?=0.05. The degrees of freedom for the critical value is _____

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The degrees of freedom for a chi-square test, which is likely the test being referred to for comparing distributions, is calculated as the number of categories minus one. Here, there are 7 categories of no-shows (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), so the degrees of freedom would be 7 - 1 = 6.

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