SCENARIO 12-2 The Dean of a College Is Interested in the Proportion

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SCENARIO 12-2
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 Scenario 12-2,the null hypothesis will be rejected if the test statistic is .

Recognize the different types of barriers to entry that sustain monopolies.

Understand the relationship between economies of scale and natural monopolies.

Analyze the significance of patents and government franchises in maintaining monopolies.

Distinguish between the profit-maximizing strategies of monopolies and competitive firms.

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