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Hypothesis Testing of Population Proportion and Level of Significance

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According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, job stress poses a major threat to the health of workers. A national survey of restaurant employees found that 75% said that job stress had a negative impact on their personal lives. A sample of 100 employees of a restaurant chain finds that 68 answer Yes when asked: Does job stress
have a negative impact on your personal life? Is this good reason to think that the proportion of all employees of this chain who would say Yes differs from the national proportion, p0 = 0.75? Use a 5% level of significance.

State the Null Hypothesis and the Alternative Hypothesis.

Determine the test statistic.

Determine the P-value.

Make a decision regarding the hypotheses based on the P-value and the Level of Significance.

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