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Historically, the percentage of U.S. residents who support stricker gun control laws has been 52%. In order to see if the support for strick gun control laws has decreased, a random sample of 1011 people was interviewed and found that 495 were in favor of stricker gun control laws
a) Set up the null and alternative hypothesis in symbols.
b) Calculate the sample proportion and of who support stricker gun control laws.
c) Find the standard error of the proportion
d) Find the value of z statistic.
e) Find the P-value
f) If the level of significance is 0.05, what is your conclusion about gun control support ( it remains same or changed)
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