Tourism is extremely important to the economy of Florida. Hotel occupancy is an often-reported measure of visitor volume and visitor activity (Orlando Sentinel, May , ). Hotel occupancy data for February in two consecutive years are as follows.

	Current Year	Previous Year
Occupied Rooms	1,548	1,494
Total Rooms	1,800	1,800

a. Formulate the hypothesis test that can be used to determine whether there has been an increase in the proportion of rooms occupied over the one-year period.

Let	population proportion of rooms occupied for current year
	population proportion of rooms occupied for previous year

- Select your answer -greater than or equal to 0greater than 0less than or equal to 0less than 0equal to 0not equal to 0Item 1 - Select your answer -greater than or equal to 0greater than 0less than or equal to 0less than 0equal to 0not equal to 0Item 2

b. What is the estimated proportion of hotel rooms occupied each year (to decimals)?

Current year
Previous Year

c. Conduct a hypothesis test. What is the -value (to decimals)? Use Table 1 from Appendix B.

-value =

Using a level of significance, what is your conclusion?

We - Select your answer -can concludecannot concludeItem 6 that there has been an increase in the hotel occupancy rate.

d. What is the confidence interval estimate of the change in occupancy for the one-year period (to decimals)?

to

Do you think area officials would be pleased with the results?

Officials would likely be - Select your answer -pleasedunpleasedItem 9 with the occupancy statistics as the trend for the current year is - Select your answer -a decreasean increaseItem 10 in hotel occupancy rates compared to last year.