A machine is set to fill the small size packages of Smarties candies with 56 candies per bag. A sample revealed: 3 bags of 56, 2 bags of 57, 1 bag of 55, and 2 bags of 58. How many degrees of freedom are there?
A) 9
B) 1
C) 8
D) 7
E) None of these statements are true

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The degrees of freedom for a sample is calculated as the number of observations minus one. Here, there are 8 bags, so the degrees of freedom is 8 - 1 = 7.

A Machine Is Set to Fill the Small Size Packages