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myopenmath.com O Question 1 You might think that if you looked at the first digit in randomly selected numbers that the

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myopenmath.com O Question 1 You might think that if you looked at the first digit in randomly selected numbers that the distribution would be uniform. Actually, it is not! Simon Newcomb and later Frank Benford both discovered that the digits occur according to the following distribution: (digt, probability) (1,0.301), (2, 0.176), (3, 0.125), (4, 0.097), (5, 0.079), (6, 0.067), (7,0.058), (8,0.051), (9, 0.046) The IRS cuently uses benford's Law to detect fraudulent tax data. Suppose investigating an individual suspected of embezzling. The fint digt of 173 checks t as follows e IRS and are supposed company are Digitt 123 Observed 17 11 23 20 13 Frequency State the appropriate nu and alterative hypothes for this te h Explain appropriate cheie for the WIM We Noorte plac whes your decad 2 P . W W S Fest reject the l 80. ه ها 3 X H command E D S 4 C R F % 5 < ficance in this mation that we were the MacBook Air & 6 7 T G Y B H C N +00 69 8 J - M K O .