Instruction 10-12 A Corporation Randomly Selects 150 Salespeople and Finds That 66

Multiple Choice

Instruction 10-12
A corporation randomly selects 150 salespeople and finds that 66% who have never taken a self-improvement course would like such a course. The firm did a similar study 10 years ago in which 60% of a random sample of 160 salespeople wanted a self-improvement course. The groups are assumed to be independent random samples. Let π₁ and π₂ represent the true proportion of workers who would like to attend a self-improvement course in the recent study and the past study, respectively.
-Referring to Instruction 10-12,what is the value of the test statistic to use in evaluating the alternative hypothesis that there is a difference in the two population proportions?

A) 0
B) 1.96
C) 1.093
D) 4.335