A Statistics Course at a Large University Is Taught in Each

question 70

Essay

A statistics course at a large university is taught in each semester. A student has noticed that the students in semester 1 and semester 2 are enrolled in different degrees. To investigate, the student takes a random sample of 25 students from semester 1 and 25 students from semester 2 and records their final marks (%) provided in the table below. Excel was used to generate descriptive statistics on each sample.
Assume that student final marks are normally distributed in each semester. (a) Can we conclude at the 5% level of significance that over 40% of students in the population scored a pass grade in semester 1, where a pass grade is 50% to 64%?
(b) Find the p-value of the test and briefly explain how to use it to test the hypotheses.

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