Some people are concerned that new tougher standards and high-stakes tests adopted in many states have driven up the high school dropout rate. The National Center for Education Statistics reported that the high school dropout rate for the year 20122012 was 7.07.0%. One school district whose dropout rate has always been very close to the national average reports that 133133 of their 17621762 high school students dropped out last year. Is this evidence that their dropout rate may be increasing? Explain. Question content area bottom Part 1 Determine the hypotheses for this test. Upper H 0H0: p equals= 0.0700.070 Upper H Subscript Upper AHA: p greater than> 0.0700.070 (Type integers or decimals. Do not round.) Part 2 Compute the test statistic. 0.900.90 (Round to two decimal places as needed.) Part 3 Find the P-value. enter your response here (Round to three decimal places as needed.)
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Some people are concerned that new tougher standards and high-stakes tests adopted in many states have driven up the high school dropout rate. The National Center for Education Statistics reported that the high school dropout rate for the year 2004 was $10.3 \% .$ One school district whose dropout rate has always been very close to the national average reports that 210 of their 1782 high school students dropped out last year. Is this evidence that their dropout rate may be increasing? Explain.
The Institute of Education Sciences measures the high school dropout rate as the percentage of 16-through 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school credential. Last year, the high school dropout rate was 8.1%. A polling company recently took a survey of 400 people between the ages of 16 and 24 and found that 26 of them are high school dropouts. The polling company would like to determine whether the dropout rate has decreased. Let α = 0.01. What is the decision rule? Group of answer choices Reject Ho if test statistics < -1.645 Reject Ho if test statistics < -2.326 Reject Ho if test statistics > 1.645 Reject Ho if test statistics < -2.576
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