To Test the Null Hypothesis That the Difference Between Two

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Essay

To test the null hypothesis that the difference between two population proportions is equal
to a nonzero constant c, use the test statistic $\mathrm{z}=\frac{\left(\hat{\mathrm{p}}_{1}-\hat{\mathrm{p}}_{2}\right)-\mathrm{c}}{\sqrt{\hat{p_{1}\left(1-\hat{p_{1}}\right) / \mathrm{n}_{1}+\hat{p_{2}}\left(1-\hat{p_{2}}\right) / \mathrm{n}_{2}}}}$ As long as n1 and n2 are both large, the sampling distribution of the test statistic z will be approximately the standard normal distribution. Given the sample data below, test the claim that the proportion of male voters who plan to vote Republican at the next presidential election is 10 percentage points more than the percentage of female voters who plan to vote Republican. Use the traditional method of hypothesis testing and use a significance level of 0.05.

Men: $\mathrm { n } _ { 1 } = 250 , \mathrm { x } _ { 1 } = 146$
Women: $n _ { 2 } = 202 , x _ { 2 } = 103$

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Electron Shells

Levels or orbits around the nucleus of an atom where electrons are likely to be found.

Protons

Positively charged particles found within an atom's nucleus.

Neutrons

Particles within an atom's nucleus that possess no electric charge and have a mass marginally higher than protons.

Crystalline Structure

A crystalline structure is a unique arrangement of atoms in a crystal, characterized by repeating patterns that extend in all three spatial dimensions.