A marketing company selected a sample of 25 lawyers and 25 doctors to determine if they had voted in the last election.At = .05, test the claim that the proportions of lawyers and doctors who voted are
Equal.

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To test the claim that the proportions of lawyers and doctors who voted are equal, we can use a two-sample z-test for proportions. Using a significance level of 0.05, the critical value for a two-tailed test with 48 degrees of freedom is 1.96.

The test statistic is calculated as: 
z = (p1 - p2) / sqrt(p(1 - p)(1/n1 + 1/n2))
where p1 and p2 are the sample proportions, n1 and n2 are the sample sizes, and p is the pooled proportion (calculated as the total number of "successes" divided by the total sample size).

In this case, 20 lawyers and 18 doctors reported voting in the last election, giving sample proportions of: 
p1 = 20/25 = 0.8 
p2 = 18/25 = 0.72 
p = (20 + 18) / (25 + 25) = 0.76

Substituting these values into the formula, we get: 
z = (0.8 - 0.72) / sqrt(0.76(1 - 0.76)(1/25 + 1/25)) = 2.16

Since the test statistic (2.16) is greater than the critical value (1.96), we can reject the null hypothesis that the proportions of lawyers and doctors who voted are equal. There is evidence to support the alternative hypothesis that the proportions are different. The null hypothesis is that the proportion of lawyers who voted is equal to the proportion of doctors who voted. So, it is a two-tailed test. Since the sample sizes are greater than 30, we can use the normal distribution to test this claim. The test statistic is calculated as:
z = (p1 - p2) / sqrt(p(1-p)(1/n1 + 1/n2))
where p1 and p2 are the sample proportions, p is the pooled proportion, and n1 and n2 are the sample sizes. The pooled proportion is calculated as:
p = (x1 + x2) / (n1 + n2)
where x1 and x2 are the number of lawyers and doctors who voted, respectively.

In this case, we have:
x1 = 15
n1 = 25
x2 = 20
n2 = 25

So, the sample proportions are:
p1 = 15/25 = 0.6
p2 = 20/25 = 0.8

The pooled proportion is:
p = (15 + 20) / (25 + 25) = 0.7

Plugging these values into the formula for the test statistic, we get:
z = (0.6 - 0.8) / sqrt(0.7(1-0.7)(1/25 + 1/25)) = -2.35

Using a standard normal table or calculator, the p-value for this test is approximately 0.019. Since this is less than the significance level of 0.05, we reject the null hypothesis and conclude that there is evidence to suggest that the proportions of lawyers and doctors who voted are not equal. The test value of 6.48 in option B is the critical value for a two-tailed test with a 5% significance level and 48 degrees of freedom (since we lose one degree of freedom for estimating the pooled proportion), so we could also have made this decision by comparing the test statistic to the critical value.

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