question 5

FP-Q.5 ( 4 marks) A local school board member randomly sampled private and public high school teachers in his district to compare the proportions of National Board Certified (NBC) teachers in the faculty. The results were: Private Public Schools Schools Sample size, n 80 520 Proportion of NBC teachers 0.175 0.150 (a) (0.5 mark) Give a point estimate for the difference in the proportion of all teachers in area public schools and the proportion of all teachers in private schools who are National Board Certified. (b) (2.0 mark) Construct the 90% confidence interval for the difference in proportion, based on these data. (c) (1.5 mark) Using the pvalue approach, test, at the 10% level of significance, the hypothesis that the proportion of all public school teachers who are National Board Certified is less than the proportion of private school teachers who are. 1