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  Information for Questions 26 -29: The General Social Survey is an ongoing nationwide survey done by...

  Information for Questions 26 -29: The General Social Survey is an ongoing nationwide survey done by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.  One question asks  whether a respondent favors or opposes capital punishment (death penalty) for persons convicted of murder. In the year 2000 24% of the respondents said they were opposed to the death penalty for convicted murders. Let's assume that this is a good representation of how the U.S. population felt back in the year 2000. In a recent study (2019)  701 of the 2565 respondents said that they were opposed to the death penalty for convicted murders

Calculate the test statistic and the p-value.

a.

  z = 3.95, p-value is approximately 0
b.

z = 4.75, p-value is approximately 0
c.

z =.1.645, p-value = 0.05
d.

z = 3.25,  p-value = 0.005
e.

  z = 1.96, p-value = 0.025

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=> option a. z = 3.95, p-value is approximately 0
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