Question

A machine is set to fill the small-size packages of m&m candies with 56 candies per bag. a sample revealed: three bags of 56, two bags of 57, one bag of 55, and two bags of 58. to test the hypothesis that the mean candies per bag is 56, how many degrees of freedom are there?

Answer 1

In statistics, the amount of degrees of freedom is the quantity of values in the final computation of a statistic that are free to differ. In this case, you can get the answer by adding the number of bags and subtracting 1.

So in computation, this would look like: 3 + 2 + 1 + 2 - 1 = 7

Therefore, 7 is the degrees of freedom.