Assume That You Plan to Use a Significance Level Of \alpha

question 123

Multiple Choice

Assume that you plan to use a significance level of $\alpha = 0.05$ test the claim that p $\mathrm { p } _ { 1 } = \mathrm { p } _ { 2 }$ . Use the given sample sizes and
numbers of successes to find the z test statistic for the hypothesis test.
- $$\begin{array} { l l } \mathrm { n } _ { 1 } = 190 & \mathrm { n } _ { 2 } = 184 \\\mathrm { x } _ { 1 } = 78 & \mathrm { x } _ { 2 } = 69\end{array}$$

• A) z = 18.096
• B) z = 0.399
• C) z = 0.703
• D) z = 9.744

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