When the Necessary Conditions Are Met, a Lower Tailed Test

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When the necessary conditions are met, a lower tailed test is being conducted for the difference between two population proportions. If the value of the test statistic is -2.43, then the null hypothesis cannot be rejected at = 0.025.

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