Test Hypotheses About a Population Proportion
-Determine the Standardized Test $z$

question 138

Multiple Choice

Test Hypotheses about a Population Proportion
-Determine the standardized test statistic, $z$ , to test the claim about the population proportion $p > 0.015$ given $\mathrm { n } = 150$ and $\hat { \mathrm { p } } = 0.027$ . Use $\alpha = 0.01$ .

• A) \(1.21\)
• B) \(1.06\)
• C) \(3.14\)
• D) \(1.56\)

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