Question

A well-known chewing gum maker wants to determine if any of its four flavors of gum are more popular than the others. A random sample of 80 people who say they chew gum regularly is asked to identify their favorite flavor of gum. Here are the results:

Answer 1

The appropriate null hypothesis is (b) Flavor preferences are evenly distributed across all flavors

How to determine the appropriate null hypothesis?

The distribution of the gum flavors is given as:

• Peppermint = 25
• Cinnamon = 19
• Wintergreen = 22
• Spearmint = 14

The sample size is given as:

Sample = 80

From the distribution of the gum flavor, we can see that the count of each flavor are not equal i.e. uneven

This means that we can use the following statement as the null hypothesis:

Flavor preferences are evenly distributed across all flavors

Hence, the appropriate null hypothesis is (b)

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