According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, job stress poses a major threat to the health of workers. A news report claims that 75% of restaurant employees feel that work stress has a negative impact on their personal lives. Managers of a large restaurant chain wonder whether this claim is valid for their employees. A random sample of 100 employees finds that 68 answer “Yes” when asked, “Does work stress have a negative impact on your personal life?” 1. Do these data provide convincing evidence at the α = 0.10 significance level that the proportion of all employees in this chain who would say “Yes” differs from 0.75? 2. A 90% confidence interval for the restaurant worker data was also created and found to be (0.603272, 0.756728). Explain how the confidence interval is consistent with, but gives more information than, the test.

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the results from a pre-test for students for the year 2000 and the year 2010 are illustrated in the box plot. what do these results tell us about how students performed on the 29 question pre-test for the two years?

if we compare only the lowest and highest scores between the two years, we might conclude that the students in 2010 did better than the students in 2010. this conclusion seems to follow since the lowest score of 8 in 2010 is greater in value than the lowest score of 6 in 2000. also, the highest score of 28 in 2010 is greater in value than the highest score of 27 in 2000.

but the box portion of the illustration gives us more detailed information. the middle bar in each box shows us that the median score of 20 in 2000 is greater in value than the median score of 17 in 2010. further, we note that the box and whiskers divide the illustration into four pieces. each of these four pieces represents the same portion of students. so, the upper half of the students in 2000 scored in the same score range as the upper one-fourth of the students in 2010, see the illustration at a score of 20.

by considering the upper one-fourth, upper half, and upper three-fourths instead of just the lowest and highest scores, we would conclude that the students as a whole did much better in 2000 than in 2010. we would conclude that as a whole the students in 2010 are less prepared than the students in 2000.

in this section, we discuss box-and-whisker plots and the five key values used in constructing a box-and-whisker plot. the key values are called a five-number summary, which consists of the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

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