Absentees A certain Ministry of Education report states that 35% of students in a large region had not been absent from school even once during the previous month. In a survey conducted in a given year, responses from 7500 students in the region showed that this figure had increased to 36.1%. Officials would, of course, be less concerned if student attendance were indeed increasing.

Do these figures give evidence of a significant change in student attendance?

a) Write appropriate hypotheses.

b) Check the assumptions and conditions.

c) Perform the test, and find the P-value.

d) State your conclusion.

e) Do you think this difference is meaningful? Explain.