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 value of the test statistic is .

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Residual Value

Residual value is the estimated value of an asset at the end of its useful life, reflecting what it could be sold for or its salvage value.

Fixed-Percentage Method

The Fixed-Percentage Method is a depreciation technique where a constant percentage of the asset's book value is depreciated each year, resulting in decreasing annual depreciation expenses.

Residual Value

The estimated amount that an asset is expected to realize upon its disposal at the end of its useful life.

Annual Depreciation

The portion of the total cost of a tangible asset that is expensed each year over its useful life.