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Under the null hypothesis, the defect count in each packet has a binomial distribution with parameters $3,\theta$. The likelihood, apart from factors independent of $\theta$, isThe maximum-likelihood estimate is thereforeThe fitted binomial distribution probabilities for counts $0,1,2,3$ are $27/64,27/64,9/64,1/64$, yielding expected packet counts $108,108,36,4$. The Pearson chi-squared goodness-of-fit test usesFor binomial goodness-of-fit with an estimated parameter, there are $4-1-1=2$ statistical degrees of freedom: the category counts have a fixed total, and one parameter was estimated. At the conventional $5\%$ level the chi-squared distribution with two statistical degrees of freedom has upper critical value $5.99$, so the data do not reject the independent common-defect-probability model. The approximate p-value is $e^{-X^2/2}\simeq 0.146$; even at $10\%$, the critical value $4.61$ exceeds the observed statistic.

This is a goodness-of-fit conclusion rather than proof that individual bulbs are independent. The last expected count is only $4$, so the chi-squared asymptotic approximation is somewhat marginal in that cell. The stated calibration is the usual asymptotic test with all four cells retained; if more accurate small-count inference is required, calibrate the fitted statistic under the binomial distribution model. Pooling cells would require a corresponding treatment of parameter fitting and test calibration.