Question

A large restaurant chain wanted to determine if its employees were taking sick days on some days of the week more than others. They took a random sample of 140 sick days taken and recorded the day of the week for each sick day. Here are the results:

Answer 1

0.2

Explanation:

Given the data :

Day : Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

# of sick days 22 11 16 17 21 28 25

The expected count of sick days taken on Saturday is obtained thus :

Expected count = (row total * column total) / overall total

Here, the table is just one way :

Hence, we use :

Observed value / total days

Hence,

Expected count on Saturday = sick days on Saturday / total sick days

Expected count on Saturday = 28 / (22+11+16+17+21+28+25)

Expected count on Saturday = 28 / 140

= 0.2