Question

A national youth organization sells six different kinds of cookies during its annual cookie campaign. A local leader is curious about whether national sales of the six kinds of cookies are uniformly distributed. He randomly selects the amounts of each kind of cookies sold by five youths and combines them into the observed data that follow. Use α = .05 to determine whether the data indicate that sales for these six kinds of cookies are uniformly distributed.

Kind of Cookie	Observed Frequency
Chocolate chip	193
Peanut butter	168
Cheese cracker	155
Lemon flavored	161
Chocolate mint	212
Vanilla filled	165

Appendix A Statistical Tables

(Round the intermediate values to 2 decimal places. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Observed χ2 =   
Cookie Sales is                                                           not uniformly distributeduniformly distributed by kind of cookie.

Answer 1