document.write( "Question 134817: Hi, I'm an online student with no physical textbook and the online textbook sucks, please help. Wish I could sit down with you and work these so you could explain it to me. I'm just lost with Statistics all together. Thanks for your help.\r
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document.write( "In Dallas, some fire trucks were painted yellow (instead of red) to heighten their visibility. During a test period, the fleet of red fire trucks made 153,348 runs and had 20 accidents, while the fleet of yellow fire trucks made 135,035 runs and had 4 accidents. At α = .01, did the yellow fire trucks have a significantly lower accident rate? \r
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document.write( "(a) State the hypotheses.
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document.write( "(b) State the decision rule and sketch it.
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document.write( "(c) Find the sample proportions and z test statistic.
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document.write( "(d) Make a decision.
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document.write( "(e) Find the p-value and interpret it.
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document.write( "(f ) If statistically significant, do you think the difference is large enough to be important? If so, to whom, and why?
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document.write( "(g) Is the normality assumption fulfilled? Explain.
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