SOLUTION: A gender selection procedure is given to 100 couples to insure the babies are girls and 45 girls are born. Was the procedure effective? Why or why not?

Question 563587: A gender selection procedure is given to 100 couples to insure the babies are girls and 45 girls are born. Was the procedure effective? Why or why not?

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A gender selection procedure is given to 100 couples to insure the babies are girls and 45 girls are born. Was the procedure effective? Why or why not?
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Ho: the proportions are equal
Ha: the proportions are not equal
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I ran a goodness of fit test on the data and got:
Chi-Sq = 1.0101
p-value = 0.7988
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Since the p-value is greater than 5%,
fail to reject Ho.
The proportions are equal at the 5% significance level.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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