TABLE 10-11 The Dean of a College Is Interested in the Proportion

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TABLE 10-11
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 Table 10-11, construct a 99% confidence interval estimate of the difference in proportion between accounting majors and economic majors who have a job offer on graduation day.

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Definitions:

Market Price

The current price at which an asset or service can be bought or sold in a market.

Production Possibilities Curve

A graphical representation that shows the maximum number of goods or services that can be produced using limited resources efficiently.

Technology Fixed

A scenario in economic models where the level of technology is assumed to remain constant, ignoring any potential technological advancements or changes.

Unemployment

The condition of being without a job, while actively looking for work.