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 19, 2018). Hotel occupancy data for February in two consecutive years are as follows.

Current Year Previous Year

Occupied Rooms. 1,505 1,494

Total Rooms 1,750 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 p1= population proportion of rooms occupied for current year

p2= population proportion of rooms occupied for previous year

H0:P1-P2 ______

H:P1-P2 _______

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.

p-value = _____

Using a .05 level of significance, what is your conclusion?

We ______ that there has been an increase in the hotel occupancy rate.

d. What is the 95% confidence interval estimate of the change in occupancy for the one-year period (to 4 decimals)?

_______ to ______

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

Officials would likely be _______ with the occupancy statistics as the trend for the current year is _______ in hotel occupancy rates compared to last year.