A Researcher Wishes to Test Whether the Proportion of College

Essay

A researcher wishes to test whether the proportion of college students who smoke is the same in four different colleges. She randomly selects 100 students from each college and records the number that smoke. The results are shown below. $$\begin{array} { r | r r r r } & \text { College A } & \text { College B } & \text { College C } & \text { College D } \\\hline \text { Smoke } & 17 & 26 & 11 & 34 \\\text { Don't smoke } & 83 & 74 & 89 & 66\end{array}$$ Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the proportion of students smoking is the same at all four colleges.