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A gambler wanted to test whether or not a die was fair. He rolled the die 180 times and got the results shown below. For example, the number "1" appeared on 40 rolls.
-What are the degrees of freedom for the chi-square goodness of fit statistic?
A) 6
B) 5
C) 4
D) None of the above

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 A gambler wanted to test whether or not a die was fair. He rolled the die 180 times and got the results shown below. For example, the number "1" appeared on 40 rolls. 
-What are the degrees of freedom for the chi-square goodness of fit statistic?
A) 6 
B) 5 
C) 4 
D) None of the above

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The degrees of freedom for the chi-square goodness of fit statistic is equal to the number of categories minus 1.

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