TABLE 12-6 the Dean of a College Is Interested in the Interested

question 88

Short Answer

TABLE 12-6
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 12-6, the value of the test statistic is _____ .

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Definitions:

Emotion-Focused Coping

A type of stress management that attempts to reduce negative emotional responses associated with stress.

Secondary Appraisal

A process in cognitive appraisal where an individual evaluates their ability to cope with the consequences of an event.

Primary Appraisal

An individual's initial assessment of the significance of an event as positive, neutral, or negative for their well-being.

Emotion-Focused Coping

coping strategies aimed at managing and reducing the emotional distress associated with stressful situations.