a. The table below show the proportion of men and women who plan to vote in the next election. Three hundred men and 300 women were randomly selected and asked whether they planned to vote in the next election.   men    women      plan to vote 170 185   do not plan to vote    130 115   What is the relative risk (likelihood) that men will vote versus men will not vote? a.1.567 b. 1.308 c. 0.583 d. 1.433 e. 0.764

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a. The table below show the proportion of men and women who plan to vote in the next election. Three hundred men and 300 women were randomly selected and asked whether they planned to vote in the next election.

  men    women     
plan to vote 170 185  
do not plan to vote    130 115  

What is the relative risk (likelihood) that men will vote versus men will not vote?

a.1.567
b. 1.308
c. 0.583
d. 1.433
e. 0.764
 

b. During a poll, 115 people were randomly selected and asked their political party affiliation. The contingency table below shows the results cross-classified by political party affiliation and sex.

  Democrat       Republican     other           total
male            16 23 25 64
female 28 12 11 51
total 44 35 35 115


Find the conditional distribution of Republicans who are men. 

a. 0.557
b. 0.657
c. 0.20
d. 0.359
e. 0.25
 
c.
For the given sample data and null hypothesis, compute the value of the test statistic. The claim is that the proportion of drowning deaths of children attributable to beaches is more than 0.25, and the sample statistics include n = 615 drowning deaths of children with 30% of them attributable to beaches.
 
a. 0.25
b. -2.86
c. -2.71
d. 2.86
e. 2.71
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