The M&M/Mars Chocolate Company is interested in customer preferences

The M&M/Mars Chocolate Company is interested in customer preferences regarding the color of their M&M candies.  They believe that people’s preferences for color is given in the table below.

Color	Brown	Yellow	Red	Orange	Green	Blue
Percentage	30%	20%	20%	10%	10%	10%

If they surveyed 500 customers regarding their preferences and found the following number of people with each preference:

Color	Brown	Yellow	Red	Orange	Green	Blue
Number	177	135	79	36	35	38

a. What would be the hypotheses you are testing in this situation?

b. Perform the test and give the correct conclusion based on your test results using α = 0.05.