To test the fairness of law enforcement in its area, a local citizens group wanted to know whether women and men are unequally likely to get speeding tickets. 400 randomly selected adults were phoned and asked whether or not they had been cited for speeding in the last year. using the results in the following table and a 0.10 level of significance Men ticket =35, Men not ticketed= 144 women ticketed= 22, women not ticketed = 199 Compute the test statistic
To test the fairness of law enforcement in its area, a local citizens group wanted to know whether women and men are unequally likely to get speeding tickets. 400 randomly selected adults were phoned and asked whether or not they had been cited for speeding in the last year. using the results in the following table and a 0.10 level of significance Men ticket =35, Men not ticketed= 144 women ticketed= 22, women not ticketed = 199 Compute the test statistic
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To test the fairness of law enforcement in its area, a local citizens group wanted to know whether women and men are unequally likely to get speeding tickets. 400 randomly selected adults were phoned and asked whether or not they had been cited for speeding in the last year. using the results in the following table and a 0.10 level of significance
Men ticket =35, Men not ticketed= 144
women ticketed= 22, women not ticketed = 199
Compute the test statistic
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