OCR S3 2014 June — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2014
SessionJune
TopicChi-squared distribution

2 In a study of the inheritance of skin colouration in corn snakes, a researcher found 865 snakes with black and orange bodies, 320 snakes with black bodies, 335 snakes with orange bodies and 112 snakes with bodies of other colours. Theory predicts that snakes of these colours should occur in the ratios \(9 : 3 : 3 : 1\). Test, at the \(5 \%\) significance level, whether these experimental results are compatible with theory.