WS Qu. 9-81 The Institute of Education Sciences measures... The Institute of Education Sciences measures the high school dropout rate as the percentage of 16- through 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school credential. Last year, the high school dropout rate was 8.1%. A polling company recently took a survey of 1,000 people between the ages of 16 and 24 and found that 68 of them are high school dropouts. The polling company would like to determine whether the dropout rate has decreased. a. When testing whether the dropout rate has decreased, which are the appropriate hypotheses? HO: (Click to select) (Click to select) v HA: (Click to select) v (Click to select) v b. What is the test statistic? Round your answer to three decimal digits. c. What is the p-value? Round your answer to four decimal digits. d. At a 5% significance level, which are the conclusions? (Click to select) v Ho because the p-value is (Click to select) w than the significance level. I (Click to select) v conclude that the dropout rate has (Click to select) v e. Let us suppose you later learned that your conclusions were incorrect. What is the error type you committed and what are the error's consequences? This is a (Click to select) ~ error because Ho was (Click to select) |when (Click to select) v The consequences of committing a (Click to select)~ error would be that the dropout rate has (Click to select) v Prey. 3 of 7 Next