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Maxwell Cantor, VP of human resources of Asimov Aerospace Industries Inc., is re

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Question

Maxwell Cantor, VP of human resources of Asimov Aerospace Industries Inc., is reviewing the technical certifications of employees in different divisions of the company. His goal is having 90% of technical employees with up-to-date certifications. The Northeast division typically has maintained higher rates of up-to-date certifications than the Southern division. He selects a random sample of 250 employees from the Northeast division and 300 from the Southern division and finds out that the number of employees with up-to-date certifications are 230 in the Northeast division and 265 in the Southern division. Assuming a = 0.01, the critical z value is ______.

2.33

1.645

1.96

2.33

2.576

Explanation / Answer

here as we are checking if Northeast division maintained higher rates ; therefore it is right tailed test

for which at 0.01 level ; critical z value is 2.33