According to a recent marketing campaign, 90 drinkers of either Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi participated in a blind taste test to see which of the drinks was their favorite. In one Pepsi television commercial, an announcer states that "in recent blind taste tests, more than one-half of the surveyed preferred Diet Pepsi over Diet Coke." Suppose that out of those 90, 49 preferred Diet Pepsi. Test the hypothesis, using α=0.01 that more than half of all participants will select Diet Pepsi in a blind taste test by giving the following: (a)    the test statistic     (b)    the critical z score

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According to a recent marketing campaign, 90 drinkers of either Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi participated in a blind taste test to see which of the drinks was their favorite. In one Pepsi television commercial, an announcer states that "in recent blind taste tests, more than one-half of the surveyed preferred Diet Pepsi over Diet Coke." Suppose that out of those 90, 49 preferred Diet Pepsi. Test the hypothesis, using α=0.01 that more than half of all participants will select Diet Pepsi in a blind taste test by giving the following:
(a)    the test statistic    
(b)    the critical z score    

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