Question

In a survey of 75 randomly selected people in Country A, 12 would like to travel abroad. In a survey of 60 randomly selected people in Country B, 12 would like to travel abroad. Test the alternative hypothesis that the population proportion for Country A is less than the population proportion for County B. The test statistic is z=−0.60. What is the corresponding p-value? Compute your answer using a value from the table below.

z	0.00	0.01	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.07	0.08	0.09
-1.0	0.159	0.156	0.154	0.152	0.149	0.147	0.145	0.142	0.140	0.138
-0.9	0.184	0.181	0.179	0.176	0.174	0.171	0.169	0.166	0.164	0.161
-0.8	0.212	0.209	0.206	0.203	0.201	0.198	0.195	0.192	0.189	0.187
-0.7	0.242	0.239	0.236	0.233	0.230	0.227	0.224	0.221	0.218	0.215
-0.6	0.274	0.271	0.268	0.264	0.261	0.258	0.255	0.251	0.248	0.245
-0.5	0.309	0.305	0.302	0.298	0.295	0.291	0.288	0.284	0.281	0.278
-0.4	0.345	0.341	0.337	0.334	0.330	0.326	0.323	0.319	0.316	0.312
-0.3	0.382	0.378	0.374	0.371	0.367	0.363	0.359	0.356	0.352	0.348
-0.2	0.421	0.417	0.413	0.409	0.405	0.401	0.397	0.394	0.390	0.386
-0.1	0.460	0.456	0.452	0.448	0.444	0.440	0.436	0.433	0.429	0.425
-0.0	0.500	0.496	0.492	0.488	0.484	0.480	0.476	0.472	0.468	0.464

Answer 1