Company average absentee rate-p-value interpretation

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1. Over the last year the absentee rate at a large corporation averaged 8.2 days absent with a standard deviation of 6 days. One department with 40 employees had an absentee rate of 12 days per employee. During an investigation the department head argued as follows: 'If you took 40 employees at random from the corporation, there is a pretty good chance the average number of days absent would be 12 or more. That's what happened to us---chance variation.' Is this a good defense? Justify your answer.

2. Market researchers would like to know if customers prefer a well-known brand over a generic brand of soft drink. They give a large sample of people the two drinks to taste in a random order and ask them which one tastes better. They find that 70% of people say the branded one and researchers compute a p-value of .02. Interpret this number.

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