Don believes that fewer than one-third of the students at his college hold part-time jobs while in school. To test his claim, he randomly selects 116 students from whom he collects the following data. Does this evidence support Don’s claim at the 0.05 level of significance?   Part-Time Job Held Yes 32 No 84 In a company-wide end-of-year survey, the office of research was able to determine that 34% of students say they held a part-time job. Did Don draw the correct conclusion? If not, what type of error did he make?

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Don believes that fewer than one-third of the students at his college hold part-time jobs while in school. To test his claim, he randomly selects 116 students from whom he collects the following data. Does this evidence support Don’s claim at the 0.05 level of significance?

 

Part-Time Job Held

Yes

32

No

84

In a company-wide end-of-year survey, the office of research was able to determine that 34% of students say they held a part-time job. Did Don draw the correct conclusion? If not, what type of error did he make?

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