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An article compared the drug use of 288 randomly selected highschool seniors exposed to a drug education program (DARE) and 335randomly selected high school seniors who were not exposed to sucha program. Data for marijuana use are given in the accompanyingtable.

	n	Number Who Use Marijuana
Exposedto DARE	288	142
NotExposed to DARE	335	177

Is there evidence that the proportion using marijuana is lowerfor students exposed to the DARE program? Use ? =0.05.(Use p_DARE ? p_{No DARE}.Round your test statistic to two decimal places and yourP-value to four decimal places.)

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P-value=

State your conclusion.

We reject H₀. We do not have convincingevidence that the proportion of students using marijuana is lowerfor students exposed to the DARE program than for students notexposed to the program.

We fail to reject H₀. We have convincingevidence that the proportion of students using marijuana is lowerfor students exposed to the DARE program than for students notexposed to the program.    

We reject H₀. We have convincing evidencethat the proportion of students using marijuana is lower forstudents exposed to the DARE program than for students not exposedto the program.

We fail to reject H₀. We do not haveconvincing evidence that the proportion of students using marijuanais lower for students exposed to the DARE program than for studentsnot exposed to the program.