SCENARIO 12-3
The director of transportation of a large company is interested in the usage of her van pool.She considers her routes to be divided into local and non-local.She is particularly interested in learning if there is a difference in the proportion of males and females who use the local routes.She takes a sample of a day's riders and finds the following:
She will use this information to perform a chi-square hypothesis test using a level of significance of 0.05.
-Referring to Scenario 12-3,the null hypothesis will be rejected.

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SCENARIO 12-3
The director of transportation of a large company is interested in the usage of her van pool.She considers her routes to be divided into local and non-local.She is particularly interested in learning if there is a difference in the proportion of males and females who use the local routes.She takes a sample of a day's riders and finds the following:
  She will use this information to perform a chi-square hypothesis test using a level of significance of 0.05.
-Referring to Scenario 12-3,the null hypothesis will be rejected.

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The null hypothesis is rejected when the p-value is less than the significance level. In Scenario 12-3, the p-value is 0.04, which is less than the significance level of 0.05. Therefore, the null hypothesis is rejected.

SCENARIO 12-3 The Director of Transportation of a Large Company Is Interested