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CAPE Applied Mathematics Unit 1 · 2015 · Paper 1 · Question Q34

In a hypothesis test for a population proportion p, the null hypothesis is p = 0.64 and the alternative hypothesis is p \neq 0.64. A sample of 400 elements from the population produced a sample proportion of 0.58. The value of the test statistic, z, is

  1. (A)-2.50
  2. (B)-0.06
  3. (C)0.43
  4. (D)0.51

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