TABLE 11-1 A Corporation Randomly Selects 150 Salespeople and Finds That 66

question 14

Multiple Choice

TABLE 11-1
A corporation randomly selects 150 salespeople and finds that 66% who have never taken a self-improvement course would like such a course. The firm did a similar study 10 years ago in which 60% of a random sample of 160 salespeople wanted a self-improvement course. The groups are assumed to be independent random samples. Let π1 and π2 represent the true proportion of workers who would like to attend a self-improvement course in the recent study and the past study, respectively.
-Referring to Table 11-1, what is the value of the test statistic to use in evaluating the alternative hypothesis that there is a difference in the two population proportions using α = 0.10?

• A) 4.335
• B) 2.706
• C) 1.194
• D) 0.274

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