A nonprofit company concemced with the school dropout rates in a nearby state ha

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A nonprofit company concemced with the school dropout rates in a nearby state has designed a tutoring program aimed at students between 16 to 18 years old. The high school dr pout rate the state fo the year 2000 was 93% O e school distri t who adopted the use of the nonprofits tutor ng pr gram and whose drop t ate has always been very close to the state average, reported in 2004 that 152 of their 1785 students dropped out. Is their experience evidence that the tutoring program has been effective? Explain. ,8 Hop#0083 vs. HA p

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The statistical software output for this problem is:

One sample proportion summary hypothesis test:
p : Proportion of successes
H0 : p = 0.093
HA : p < 0.093

Hypothesis test results:

Hence,

Test statistic = - 1.14

Proportion Count Total Sample Prop. Std. Err. Z-Stat P-value p 152 1785 0.085154062 0.0068742608 -1.1413501 0.1269

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