Some first-time home buyersespecially millennialsare raiding their retirement accounts to cover the down payment on a home.

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Some first-time home buyers—especially millennials—are raiding their retirement accounts to cover the down payment on a home. An economist is concerned that the percentage of millennials who will dip into their retirement accounts to fund a home now exceeds 20%. He randomly surveys 190 millenials with retirement accounts and finds that 50 are borrowing against them. 

a. Set up the null and the alternative hypotheses to test the economist’s concern. 

b. Calculate the value of the test statistic and the p-value. 

c. Determine if the economist’s concern is justifiable at α = 0.05.

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Business Analytics Communicating With Numbers

ISBN: 9781260785005

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Authors: Sanjiv Jaggia, Alison Kelly, Kevin Lertwachara, Leida Chen

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