Identify the variable in this test and what type of variable is it (nominal, ordinal or continuous).Then state the null and alternative hypothesis. Two employees at an ice cream store were discussing the popularity of four of the ice cream flavorsthey have: Vanilla, Chocolate, Mint, and Strawberry. Employee A thought that the four flavors areequally popular, but employee B didn't think so. To settle their debate, they decided to tally thenumber of customers asking for those flavors for a whole day.There were 40 customers that day:5 asked for vanilla15 asked for chocolate14 asked for Mint6 asked for strawberryConduct a Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit to answer the research question of whether the fourflavors are equally popular, using a = .05 as the significance level.

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Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

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Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.6: Summarizing Categorical Data

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Identify the variable in this test and what type of variable is it (nominal, ordinal or continuous). Then state the null and alternative hypothesis.

Two employees at an ice cream store were discussing the popularity of four of the ice cream flavors
they have: Vanilla, Chocolate, Mint, and Strawberry. Employee A thought that the four flavors are
equally popular, but employee B didn't think so. To settle their debate, they decided to tally the
number of customers asking for those flavors for a whole day.
There were 40 customers that day:
5 asked for vanilla
15 asked for chocolate
14 asked for Mint
6 asked for strawberry
Conduct a Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit to answer the research question of whether the four
flavors are equally popular, using a = .05 as the significance level.

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This research question aims to determine whether the four flavors of ice cream (Vanilla, Chocolate, Mint, and Strawberry) are equally popular based on the number of customers asking for those flavor's during a one-day period. A Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit will be conducted with a significance level of 0.05.