Question

Andrew believes the honor roll students at his school have an unfair advantage in being assigned to the math class they request. He asked 500 students at his school the following questions: "Are you on the honor roll?" and "Did you get the math class you requested?" The results are shown in the table below:

Help Andrew determine if all students at his school have an equal opportunity to get the math class they requested. Show your work and explain your process for determining the fairness of the class assignment process.

Answer 1

Honor roll Not on honor roll Total
Received math class requested 315 64 379
Did not get math class requested 41 80 121
Total 356 144 500

Honor roll: request granted: 315/356 = 0.88 x 100% = 88%
Not Honor roll request granted: 64/144 = 0.44 x 100% = 44%

Honor roll students were given preference in granting request than those not in the honor roll.