Answer to Question #67471 in Statistics and Probability for Lucy

Question

school pep rally,. Randomly drew 36 names out of basket. Of the prize winners, 6 were freshmen, 14 were sophomores, 9 were juniors, and 7 were seniors. School is 30% freshmen, 25% sophomores, 25% juniors, and 20% seniors. a. What are the expected frequencies of winners from each class? Expected frequency would be that the freshmen would hold the most prizes (being the largest class) followed by sophomores and Juniors and lastly the seniors as they have a smaller population. b. Conduct a significance test to determine whether the winners of the prizes were distributed throughout the classes as would be expected based on the percentage of students in each group. Report your Chi Square and p values.
c. What do you conclude?