You work for a bakery and the owner wants to know whether th

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You work for a bakery and the owner wants to know whether the customers like different kinds of cakes better than others. You give a survey to a random sample of 100 customers and compare their preferences for the following cake categories: Chocolate, Lemon, Orange, Strawberry. What type of stastical analysis would tell you whether the customers have preferences for a specific cake flavor or not?

A) Binomial test

B) Correlation

C) regression

D) chi-square

Answer D chi square

chi-square goodness of fit test is applied when you have one categorical variable from a single population. It is used to determine whether sample data are consistent with a hypothesized distribution.

The null hypothesis (H₀) specifies the proportion of observations at each level of the categorical variable. The alternative hypothesis (H_a) is that at least one of the specified proportions is not true.