Some people are concerned that new tougher standards and high-stakes tests adopted in many states have...

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Some people are concerned that new tougher standards and high-stakes tests adopted in many states have driven up the high school dropout rate. An organization reported that the high school dropout rate for a very recent year was 5.8%. One school district whose dropout rate has always been very close to the national average reports that 97 of their 1573 high school students dropped out last year. Is this evidence that their dropout rate may be increasing? Explain. Consider an event to be rare if its probability of occurring is less than 0.05. Identify the appropriate hypotheses. Let p be the population proportion of high school students who drop out in a year. Hop HA: P (Type integers or decimals. Do not round.) The test statistic for this test is (Round to two decimal places as needed.) The P-value is (Round to three decimal places as needed.) the null hypothesis. There strong evidence that the school district's dropout rate may be increasing. Some people are concerned that new tougher standards and high-stakes tests adopted in many states have driven up the high school dropout rate. An organization reported that the high school dropout rate for a very recent year was 5.8%. One school district whose dropout rate has always been very close to the national average reports that 97 of their 1573 high school students dropped out last year. Is this evidence that their dropout rate may be increasing? Explain. Consider an event to be rare if its probability of occurring is less than 0.05. Identify the appropriate hypotheses. Let p be the population proportion of high school students who drop out in a year. Hop HA: P (Type integers or decimals. Do not round.) The test statistic for this test is (Round to two decimal places as needed.) The P-value is (Round to three decimal places as needed.) the null hypothesis. There strong evidence that the school district's dropout rate may be increasing.