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9.5 Exercise 62

Avg difficulty 2.5

A recent survey in the New York Times Almanac indicated that 48.8 percent of families own stock. A broker wanted to determine if this survey could be valid. He surveyed a random sample of 250 families and found that 142 owned some type of stock. At the 0.05 significance level, can the survey be considered to be accurate?

OpenStax Statistics, 9.5 Additional Information and Full Hypothesis Test Examples, exercise 62

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