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Going Nuts The UR Nuts Company sells Deluxe and Premium nut mixes, both of which contain
Chapter 11, Problem 36(choose chapter or problem)
Going Nuts The UR Nuts Company sells Deluxe and Premium nut mixes, both of which contain only cashews, brazil nuts, almonds, and peanuts. The Premium nuts are much more expensive than the Deluxe nuts. A consumer group suspects that the two nut mixes are really the same. To find out, the group took separate random samples of 20 pounds of each nut mix and recorded the weights of each type of nut in the sample. Here are the data:18 Type of mix Type of nut Premium Deluxe Cashew 6 lb 5 lb Brazil nut 3 lb 4 lb Almond 5 lb 6 lb Peanut 6 lb 5 lb Explain why we cant use a chi-square test to determine whether these two distributions differ significantly.
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Going Nuts The UR Nuts Company sells Deluxe and Premium nut mixes, both of which contain only cashews, brazil nuts, almonds, and peanuts. The Premium nuts are much more expensive than the Deluxe nuts. A consumer group suspects that the two nut mixes are really the same. To find out, the group took separate random samples of 20 pounds of each nut mix and recorded the weights of each type of nut in the sample. Here are the data:18 Type of mix Type of nut Premium Deluxe Cashew 6 lb 5 lb Brazil nut 3 lb 4 lb Almond 5 lb 6 lb Peanut 6 lb 5 lb Explain why we cant use a chi-square test to determine whether these two distributions differ significantly.
ANSWER:Step 1 of 2
We note that the given table contains weights,while we have not been given the observational counts for each cell.