Randomly selected 125 people from a community were asked to indicate which of the news programs they preferred on three television channels at 17:00. Since the results obtained are as in the table below, test the null hypothesis that the preferences for the population are equally distributed across three channels, at a 5% significance level.

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Randomly selected 125 people from a community were asked to indicate which of the news programs they preferred on three television channels at 17:00. Since the results obtained are as in the table below, test the null hypothesis that the preferences for the population are equally distributed across three channels, at a 5% significance level.

Channel                                         A     B       C
Number of people who prefer      37    38     50

 

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