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?
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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?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 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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