In october 2000 the us department of commerce reported the

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In October 2000, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported the results of a large scale survey on high school graduation. Researchers contacted more than 25,000 Americans aged 24 years to see if they had finished high school: 84.9% of the 12,460 males and 88.1% of the 12,678 females indicated that they had high school diplomas.

a) Are the assumptions and conditions neccessary for inference satisfied?Explain.

b) Create a 95% confidence interval for the difference in graduation rates between males and females.

c) Interpet your confidence interval.

d) Does this provide strong evidence that girls are more likely than boys to complete high school? Explain.

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