Children and Environmental Tobacco Smoke at Home. Use the following information for Exercises 41–44. The Environmental Protection Agency reported that 11% of children age 6 and under were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) at home on a regular basis (at least four times per week).15 A random sample of 100 children age 6 and under showed that 6% of these children had been exposed to ETS at home on a regular basis.

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image 44. Refer to Exercise 41. What if the sample proportion decreased, but everything else stayed the same? Describe what would happen to the following, and why.

  1. The -value
  2. The conclusion