TABLE 10-11 The Dean of a College Is Interested in the Proportion

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TABLE 10-11
The dean of a college is interested in the proportion of graduates from his college who have a job offer on graduation day. He is particularly interested in seeing if there is a difference in this proportion for accounting and economics majors. In a random sample of 100 of each type of major at graduation, he found that 65 accounting majors and 52 economics majors had job offers. If the accounting majors are designated as "Group 1" and the economics majors are designated as "Group 2," perform the appropriate hypothesis test using a level of significance of 0.05.
-Referring to Table 10-11, construct a 90% confidence interval estimate of the difference in proportion between accounting majors and economic majors who have a job offer on graduation day.

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Definitions:

ROE

Return on Equity, a measure of financial performance calculated by dividing net income by shareholder equity, indicating how effectively management is using a company’s assets to create profits.

Earnings Retention Ratio

The earnings retention ratio, also known as the plowback ratio, measures the percentage of net income that is retained in the company rather than being paid out as dividends.

Market Capitalization Rate

Market capitalization rate, or "cap rate", is used in evaluating and comparing the expected returns on investments in the equity market, reflecting the cost of capital for a company.

P/E Ratio

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