A Researcher Wishes to Determine Whether the Proportion of Canadian

question 52

Essay

A researcher wishes to determine whether the proportion of Canadian women who smoke differs from the proportion of Canadian men who smoke.He wants to test the hypothesis
:
=
where
represents the proportion of Canadian women who smoke and
represents the proportion of Canadian men who smoke.He randomly selects 100 married couples.Among the 100 women in the sample are 21 smokers.Among the 100 men are 29 smokers.Are the assumptions for a two-sample z-test for two population proportions met? If not,which assumption is violated and why?

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