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

Exercise 7

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: Age The age distribution of the Canadian population and the age distribution of a random sample of 455 residents in the Indian community of Red Lake Village (Northwest Territories) are shown below (based on U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Data Base ):

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.