Question

in 1996, forty percent of the students at s major university were business major, 35% were engineering majors and the rest of the students were majoring in other fields. in a random sample 600 students from the same university taken in 1997, 200 were business majors, 220 were engineering majors and the remaining students in the sample were majoring in other fields. at a 5% significance level, test to see if there has been a signifocant change in the proportions between 1996 and 1997

Answer 1

H0 : There is not a significant change in the proportions between 1996 and 1997.

H1 : There is not a significant change in the proportions between 1996 and 1997.

(since the P-value = 0.0014 <0.05, we reject H0)