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In 1987, when the unemployment rate for the nation was 6.2 percent, a sample of 370 Boston workers showed that 10 were unemployed. ( Data simulated from Freeman, 1991.) Do these data provide sufficient evidence at the 0.01 significance to conclude that the unemployment rate in Boston was less than the national unemployment rate in 1997?

a. What are the H0 and H1? what is the test statistic?

b. What is the sampling distribution of p?

c. What is the P-value?

d. state the conclusion in terms of this problem

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