TABLE 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.
-True or False: Referring to Table 12-3,the decision made suggests that there is a difference between the proportion of males and females who ride local versus non-local routes.

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TABLE 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.
-True or False: Referring to Table 12-3,the decision made suggests that there is a difference between the proportion of males and females who ride local versus non-local routes.

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The chi-square test results in a p-value of 0.032, which is less than the level of significance of 0.05. Therefore, we reject the null hypothesis and conclude that there is a significant difference between the proportion of males and females who ride local versus non-local routes.

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