A university wants to increase its retention rate of 4% for graduating students from the previous year.After implementing several new programs during the last two years,the university reevaluated its retention rate using a random sample of 352 students and retained 18 students.Should the university continue its new programs? State the critical value required to perform an appropriate hypothesis test using α = 0.10.
A)1.645
B)2.576
C)3.09
D)1.282
E)1.96

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For a one-tailed test with α = 0.10, the critical value from the Z-distribution table is 1.282.

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