It has been found that 26% of men 20 years and older suffer from hypertension (h

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It has been found that 26% of men 20 years and older suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure) and 31.5% of women are hypertensive. A random sample of 130 of each gender was selected from recent hospital records, and the following results were obtained. Can you conclude that a higher percentage of women have high blood pressure? Use a = 0.01. Men 50 patients had high blood pressure Women 64 patients had high blood pressure Use p_1 for the proportion of men with high blood pressure. State the hypotheses and identify the claim with the correct hypothesis. H_0: p_1= p_2 H_0: p_1

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critical value is

using alpha = 0.01

one tailed test

Z = - 2.32

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