Are People Equally Likely to Be Born on Any Day

Essay

Are people equally likely to be born on any day of the seven days of the week? Or are some days more likely to be a person's birthday than other days? To investigate this question, days of birth were recorded for the 147 "noted writers of the present" listed in The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. The counts for the seven days of the week are given in the following table.
-Fill in the table below with the expected counts based on the hypothesized model that people are equally likely to be born on any day of the seven days of the week.