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10-1
Researchers in a populous country contacted more than 25,000 inhabitants aged 22 years to see if they had finished high school; 81.7%
of the 12,858 males and 80.1% of the 12,957 females indicated that they had high school diplomas.
a) What assumptions are necessary to satisfy the conditions necessary for inference?
b) Create a 90% confidence interval for the difference in graduation rates between males and females,
p Subscript males Baseline minus p Subscript femalespmales−pfemales.
c) Interpret your confidence interval.
d) Is there evidence that boys are more likely than girls to complete high school?