Kids with phones: A marketing manager for a phone company claims that the percentage of children aged 8-12 who have phones differs from 51%. In a survey of 830 children aged 8-12 by a national consumers group, 415 of them had phones. Can you conclude that the manager's

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Kids with phones: A marketing manager for a phone company claims that the percentage of children aged 8-12 who have phones differs from 51%. In a survey of 830 children aged 8-12 by a national consumers group, 415 of them had phones. Can you conclude that the manager's claim is true? Use the =α0.05 level of significance and the P-value method with the TI-84 Plus calculator. Compute the value of the test statistic. 

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Given that 

Sample size n =830

Favorable cases x =415

Sample proportion p^=x/n

=415/830

=0.5

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