Question

A college prep school advertises that their students are more prepared to succeed in college than other schools. To verify this, they categorize GPA’s into 4 groups and look up the proportion of students at a state college in each category. They find that 7% have a 0-0.99, 21% have a 1-1.99, 37% have a 2-2.99, and 35% have a 3-4.00 in GPA. They then take a random sample of 200 of their graduates at the state college and find that 19 has a 0-0.99, 28 have a 1-1.99, 82 have a 2-2.99, and 71 have a 3-4.00. Can they conclude that the grades of their graduates are distributed differently than the general population at the school? Test at the 0.05 level of significance. Enter the test statistic - round to 4 decimal places.

Answer 1

P-value = . Since the p-value is greater than the 0.05 level of significance, we fail to reject the null hypothesis. We conclude that there is not enough evidence to support the claim that the grades of their graduates are distributed differently than the general population at the school.