To test the fairness of law enforcement in its area, a local citizens’ group wants to know whether women and men are unequally likely to get speeding tickets. Five hundred 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 0.100.10 level of significance, test the claim of the citizens’ group. Let men be Population 1 and let women be Population 2.  Speeding Tickets Ticketed Not Ticketed Men 5555 174174 Women 4545 226226 Step 2: compute test value.. round to 2 decimal places Step 3: draw a conclusion and interpret the conclusion

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To test the fairness of law enforcement in its area, a local citizens’ group wants to know whether women and men are unequally likely to get speeding tickets. Five hundred 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 0.100.10 level of significance, test the claim of the citizens’ group. Let men be Population 1 and let women be Population 2.

 Speeding Tickets
  Ticketed Not Ticketed
Men 5555 174174
Women 4545 226226

Step 2: compute test value.. round to 2 decimal places

Step 3: draw a conclusion and interpret the conclusion.

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