TABLE 12-6 According to an Article in Marketing News, Fewer Checks Are

question 28

True/False

TABLE 12-6
According to an article in Marketing News, fewer checks are being written at the grocery store checkout than in the past. To determine whether there is a difference in the proportion of shoppers who pay by check among three consecutive years at a 0.05 level of significance, the results of a survey of 500 shoppers in three consecutive years are obtained and presented below.

-Referring to Table 12-6, the null hypothesis cannot be rejected.

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