A Suburban Realtor Is Studying Commuter Time in the Calgary $\alpha$

Multiple Choice

A suburban realtor is studying commuter time in the Calgary metropolitan area. She has been told the average weekday travel time from a southern suburb at 8:00 a.m. is 45 minutes. For five months she counts the number of days that it takes her more than 45 minutes to arrive in downtown when she leaves her house at 8:00 a.m. She expects the data are uniformly distributed across the five months. Her sample of observed data yields the following frequencies: 9 days, 15 days, 8 days, 11 days, 12 days. Using $\alpha$ =.10, the appropriate decision is ___.

A) do not reject the null hypothesis that the observed distribution is uniform
B) do not reject the null hypothesis that the observed distribution is not uniform
C) reject the null hypothesis that the observed distribution is uniform
D) reject the null hypothesis that the observed distribution is not uniform
E) do nothing