An Airline Claims That the No-Show Rate for Passengers Is $\alpha$

question 131

Essay

An airline claims that the no-show rate for passengers is less than 5%. In a sample of 420 randomly selected
reservations, 19 were no-shows. At α $\alpha$ = 0.01, test the airlineʹs claim.

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