A Recent Study Conducted by the State Government Attempts to Determine

question 65

Essay

A recent study conducted by the state government attempts to determine whether the voting public supports a further increase in cigarette taxes.The opinion poll recently sampled 1500 voting age citizens.1020 of the sampled citizens were in favor of an increase in cigarette taxes.The state government would like to decide if there is enough evidence to establish whether the proportion of citizens supporting an increase in cigarette taxes is significantly greater than .66.What is the value of the test statistic?

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Definitions:

Disjoint

Referring to sets that have no elements in common; also used to describe events that cannot occur at the same time.

Proportion

The fraction of times an event occurs relative to the total number of trials or instances.

M&M Candy

A brand of colorful, button-shaped chocolates with a letter "m" printed on them, encased in a sugar shell.

Drawn

A term used to describe an outcome or result that ends in a tie or no clear winner, or the process of extracting or pulling something.