SOLUTION: James believes the honor roll students at his school have an unfair advantage in being assigned to the math class they request. He asked 500 students at his school the following qu

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Question 873994: James believes the honor roll students at his school have an unfair advantage in being assigned to the math class they request. He asked 500 students at his school the following questions: "Are you on the honor roll?" and "Did you get the math class you requested?" The results are shown in the table below.


Honor roll Not on honor roll Total
Received math class requested 315 64 379
Did not get math class requested 41 80 121
Total 356 144 500

Help James determine if all students at his school have an equal opportunity to get the math class they requested. Show your work and explain your process for determining the fairness of the class assignment process.
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	HR	N-HR	

Rcd	315	64	379

N-Rcd	41	80	121

	356	144	500

315/356 = 88.48%

64/144 = 44.44%

 88.48% HR got the Math Class requested  vs 44.44% of the N-HR

Info given suggests non-fairness, however, info given does not

state whether N-HR had or had not satisfied course requirements

for those Classes they requested