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Angela Holmes
on Dec 01, 2024
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A company is willing to renew its publishing contract with a popular calculus book author only if he can prove that his book can sell to more than 15% of the entire calculus market.The publishing company contacts 3000 calculus professors at random and only 420 professors were interested in the book.Should the company renew the contract? State the critical value required to perform an appropriate hypothesis test using α = 0.05.
A) -1.645
B) -2.326
C) 1.645
D) 1.96
E) -1.96
Hypothesis Test
A methodology in statistics that utilizes data from a subset to assess a conjecture about a population attribute.
Publishing Contract
An agreement between an author and publisher dictating the terms under which a work will be published, including rights, distribution, and royalties.
- Master the technique of pinpointing and calculating essential critical values in hypothesis testing scenarios.
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Learning Objectives
- Master the technique of pinpointing and calculating essential critical values in hypothesis testing scenarios.