TABLE 11-2 The Dean of a College Is Interested in the Proportion

question 65

Short Answer

TABLE 11-2
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 11-2, the p-value of the test is ________.

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Definitions:

Monopolistic Competition

Monopolistic competition is a market structure where many firms sell products that are similar but not identical, allowing for significant differentiation and some price control.

Long-run Minimum

pertains to the lowest level of input costs or output prices a firm can achieve over a period during which all input factors are variable.

Monopolistic Competition

A market structure characterized by many firms producing slightly differentiated products, leading to competitive prices and some degree of market power for each firm.

Relatively Elastic

Describes a situation in which the quantity demanded or supplied responds significantly to changes in price.