The Personnel Manager Is Concerned About Absenteeism

Multiple Choice

The personnel manager is concerned about absenteeism. She decides to sample the records to determine if absenteeism is distributed evenly throughout the six-day workweek. The null hypothesis to be tested is: Absenteeism is distributed evenly throughout the week. The 0.01 level is to be used. The sample results are: Using the Goodness of Fit Test above, what can you state about the observed absences?

A) The 0.8 value of chi-square with 5 df, leads us to conclude that there is a significant difference between the number of absences across the week when tested at the 5% level of significance.
B) Absenteeism is distributed evenly throughout the week. The observed differences are due to sampling variation, as supported by the p-value of 0.9770.
C) Absenteeism is not distributed evenly throughout the week. The p-value of 0.9770 strongly supports this conclusion.
D) The 5df lead us to conclude that absenteeism is distributed evenly throughout the week.
E) None of the choices are correct.