A telephone company claims that the service calls which they receive are equally distributed among the five working days of the week. A survey of 90 randomly selected service calls was conducted. Is there enough evidence to refute the telephone company's claim that the number of service calls does not change from day to day? The number of calls on Monday is 17. The number of calls on Tuesday is 19. The number of calls on Wednesday is 23. The number of calls on Thursday is 21. The number of calls on Friday is 10. State the null and alternate hypothesis in terms of the expected proportions for each category.
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A telephone company claims that the service calls which they receive are equally distributed among the five working days of the week. A survey of 90 randomly selected service calls was conducted. Is there enough evidence to refute the telephone company's claim that the number of service calls does not change from day to day? The number of calls on Monday is 17. The number of calls on Tuesday is 19. The number of calls on Wednesday is 23. The number of calls on Thursday is 21. The number of calls on Friday is 10. State the null and alternate hypothesis in terms of the expected proportions for each category.
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The null hypothesis states that the number of service calls is equally distributed among the five working days of the week. The alternate hypothesis states that the number of service calls does not have an equal distribution among the five working days of the week.
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