According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance by the airlines is described as follows: Action % of Time On time 70.8 National Aviation System delay 8.2 Aircraft arriving late 9.0 Other (because of weather and other conditions) 12.0 Records of 200 randomly selected flights for a major airline company showed that 125 planes were on time; 40 were delayed because of weather, 10 because of a National Aviation System delay, and the rest because of arriving late. At α = 0.05, do these results differ from the government’s statistics

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According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance by the airlines is described as follows:

Action % of Time
On time 70.8
National Aviation System delay 8.2
Aircraft arriving late 9.0
Other (because of weather and other conditions) 12.0

Records of 200 randomly selected flights for a major airline company showed that 125 planes were on time; 40 were delayed because of weather, 10 because of a National Aviation System delay, and the rest because of arriving late. At α = 0.05, do these results differ from the government’s statistics?

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