The National Center for Educations 1996 numbers are often employed as a baseline to asses changes mothers who are college graduates. In 1996, 31% of students reported that their mothers had graduated from college. In 2000, responses from 8368 students found that this figure had grown to 32%. Is this evidence of a change in education levels among mothers?
a) Write appropriate hypotheses
b) Check the assumptions and conditions
c) Perform the test and find the P-value
d) State your conclusion
e) Do you think the difference is meaningful? Explain.