A Researcher Wishes to Test Whether the Proportion of College

question 38

Essay

A researcher wishes to test whether the proportion of college students who smoke is the
same at four different colleges. She randomly selects 100 students from each college and
records the number that smoke. The results are shown below. $$\begin{array} { r | c c c c } & \text { College A } & \text { College B } & \text { College C } & \text { College D } \\\hline \text { Smoke } & 17 & 26 & 11 & 34 \\\text { Don't Smoke } & 83 & 74 & 89 & 66\end{array}$$ Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the proportion of students smoking is the
same at all four colleges.

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