A school guidance counselor is concerned that a greater proportion of high school students are working part-time jobs during the school year than a decade ago. A decade ago, 28% of high school students worked a part-time job during the school year. To investigate whether the proportion is greater today, a random sample of 80 high school students is selected. It is discovered that 37.5% of them work part-time jobs during the school year. The guidance counselor would like to know if the data provide convincing evidence that the true proportion of all high school students who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28. The guidance counselor tests the hypotheses H0: p = 0.28 versus Ha: p > 0.28, where p = the true proportion of all high school students who work a part-time job during the school year. The conditions for inference are met. The standardized test statistic is z = 1.89 and the P-value is 0.0294. What conclusion should be made using the α = 0.05 significance level? Because the P-value is less than α = 0.05, there is convincing evidence that the true proportion of all high school students who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28.   Because the P-value is less than α = 0.05, there is not convincing evidence that the true proportion of all high school students who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28.   Because the P-value is less than α = 0.05, there is convincing evidence that the proportion of high school students in this sample who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28.   Because the P-value is less than α = 0.05, there is not convincing evidence that the proportion of high school students in this sample who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28.

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A school guidance counselor is concerned that a greater proportion of high school students are working part-time jobs during the school year than a decade ago. A decade ago, 28% of high school students worked a part-time job during the school year. To investigate whether the proportion is greater today, a random sample of 80 high school students is selected. It is discovered that 37.5% of them work part-time jobs during the school year. The guidance counselor would like to know if the data provide convincing evidence that the true proportion of all high school students who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28. The guidance counselor tests the hypotheses H0p = 0.28 versus Hap > 0.28, where p = the true proportion of all high school students who work a part-time job during the school year. The conditions for inference are met. The standardized test statistic is z = 1.89 and the P-value is 0.0294. What conclusion should be made using the α = 0.05 significance level?

Because the P-value is less than α = 0.05, there is convincing evidence that the true proportion of all high school students who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28.
 
Because the P-value is less than α = 0.05, there is not convincing evidence that the true proportion of all high school students who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28.
 
Because the P-value is less than α = 0.05, there is convincing evidence that the proportion of high school students in this sample who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28.
 
Because the P-value is less than α = 0.05, there is not convincing evidence that the proportion of high school students in this sample who work a part-time job during the school year is greater than 0.28.
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