Instruction 15-1 A Large Organization Randomly Selects 150 Employees and Finds That

Multiple Choice

Instruction 15-1
A large organization randomly selects 150 employees and finds that 66% who have never taken a professional-development course would like such a course. The firm did a similar study 10 years ago in which 60% of a random sample of 160 employees wanted a professional-development 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 professional-development course in the recent study and the past study, respectively.
-Referring to Instruction 15-1,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 using α = 0.10?

A) 1.194
B) 0.274
C) 4.335
D) 2.706