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A company that develops over-the-counter medicines is working ona new product that is meant to shorten the length of sore throats.To test their product for effectiveness, they take a random sampleof 100 people and record how long it took for their symptoms tocompletely disappear. The results are in the tablebelow.  The company knows that on average (withoutmedication) it takes a sore throat 6 days or less to heal 42% ofthe time, 7-9 days 31% of the time, 10-12 days 16% of the time, and13 days or more 11% of the time. Can it be concluded at the 0.01level of significance that the patients who took the medicinehealed at a different rate than these percentages?

Hypotheses:

H0: There is no difference/a difference in durationof sore throat for those that took the medicine.

H1: There is no difference/a difference in durationof sore throat for those that took the medicine.

Enter the expected count for each category in the tablebelow.

6 days or less

7-9 days

10-12 days

13 or more days

Duration of Sore Throat

47

38

10

5

Expected Counts

After running a Goodness of Fit test, can it be concluded thatthere is a statistically significant difference in duration of sorethroat for those that took the medicine?

Yes/No

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