TABLE 12-2 The Dean of a College Is Interested in the Proportion

question 125

Short Answer

TABLE 12-2
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 12-2, the p-value of the test is ________.

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Definitions:

Law Of Supply

The Law of Supply states that, all else being equal, an increase in price results in an increase in the quantity supplied.

Quantity Supplied

The supply of a good or service that businesses intend to sell, given a certain price point.

Quantity Supplied

The measure of goods or services that vendors are eager and able to part with at a set price.

Supply Curve

A visual diagram that illustrates how the price of a product correlates with the amount of the product that sellers are prepared to offer.