10.1 – Verifying Requirements. In the largest clinical trial ever conducted, 401

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10.1 – Verifying Requirements. In the largest clinical trial ever conducted, 401,974 children were randomly assigned to two groups. The treatment group consisted of 201,229 children given the Salk vaccine for polio, and the other 200,745 children were given a placebo. Among those in the treatment group, 33 developed polio, and among those in the placebo group, 115 developed polio. If we want to use the methods of this section to test the claim that the rate of polio is less for children given the Salk vaccine, are the requirements for a hypothesis test satisfied? Explain.

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Yes, the samples are random and success and failures in two groups are both greater than 10. Therefore, the requirements for a hypothesis test satisfied

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