TABLE 12-3 The Director of Transportation of a Large Company Is Interested

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TABLE 12-3
The director of transportation of a large company is interested in the usage of her van pool. She considers her routes to be divided into local and non-local. She is particularly interested in learning if there is a difference in the proportion of males and females who use the local routes. She takes a sample of a day's riders and finds the following:

She will use this information to perform a chi-square hypothesis test using a level of significance of 0.05.
-Referring to Table 12-3, the overall or mean proportion of local riders is ________.

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