Question

1. A market analyst believes that automobile preferences among consumers among the top ten manufacturers are uniform or equal. To test this, a random sample of 10,000 consumers is selected and asked to choose their preferred brand. The results are as follows:

   Observed Frequency

Company or Brand    of Preferences

Fiat-Chrysler                                    857

Nissan                                              867

Ford                                                 594

Tesla                                                936

GM                                                 1568

Honda                                              885

BMW                                               816

Daimler                                          1418

Volkswagen                                     859

Toyota                                            1200

Conduct a Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Test at the 0.05 level to test the analyst’s claim. Conduct this by hand and use the Chi-Square table. Do not use Excel.

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