The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 23 - Comparing Two Proportions - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 550: 23.7b

Answer

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Work Step by Step

If a success and a failure is added in each sample, then the number of successes will increase by $1$ and the sample size will increase by $2$. Hence here: $n_1=53+2=55,x_1=6+1=7$ $n_2=108+2=110,x_1=45+1=46$
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