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In 2012, the Detroit Tigers and the San Francisco Giants met inbaseball's World Series.  That year, the Tigers had awon-lost record of 88-74 and the Giants had a won-lost record of94-68.   The question is whether the Giants were infact the superior team based on their won-lostrecord.  So, test the claim that the 'true' proportion oftheir games won by the Giants was in fact higher than it was forthe Tigers in 2012. Assume the only alternate hypothesis ofinterest is where the Giants are the superiorteam.   

The p-value of the hypothesis test is: ?????



Which of the following are correct conclusions?

At a 10% significance level, it would appear that the Giantswere in fact the superior team.

At a 1% significance level, it would appear that the Giants werein fact the superior team.

At a 5% significance level, it would appear that the Giants werein fact the superior team.

At a 15% significance level, it would appear that the Giantswere in fact the superior team.

It would seem that this 6-win difference over the course of theseason is not statistically significant.

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For sample 1 we have that the sample size is N 1168 the number of favorable cases is X194 so then the sample proportion is p1X1N19416805595 For sample 2 we    See Answer
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