TABLE 8-14 The Superintendent of a Unified School District of a Small

question 6

Essay

TABLE 8-14
The superintendent of a unified school district of a small town wants to make sure that no more than 5% of the students skip more than 10 days of school in a year.A random sample of 145 students from a population of 800 showed that 12 students skipped more than 10 days of school last year.
-Referring to Table 8-14,what is the critical value for the 95% one-sided confidence interval for the proportion of students who skipped more than 10 days of school last year?

Understand the concept of cognitive dissonance and its implications in consumer behavior.

Recognize the applicability of balance theory in understanding consumer attitudes and behaviors.

Differentiate between types of consumer attitudes and how they are influenced.

Identify the mechanisms behind promotional strategies and their effectiveness based on the type of purchase.

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of chance for a designated statistic, rooted in a random sample.

P-Value

The odds of encountering test findings at least as extreme as the observed ones, given that the null hypothesis is accurate.

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical method that uses sample data to evaluate a hypothesis about a population parameter, leading to a decision to accept or reject the hypothesis.

Test Statistic

A numerical value calculated from a sample of data used in statistical testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.