health officer is trying to study the malaria situation of Zambia. From the records of  seasonal blood survey (SBS) results he came to understand that the proportion of people  having malaria in Zambia was 3.8% in 2015. The size of the sample considered was 15,000.  He also realized that during the year that followed (2016), blood samples were taken from  10,000 randomly selected persons. The result of the 2016 seasonal blood survey showed  that 200 persons were positive for malaria. Help the Health officer in testing the hypothesis  that the malaria situation of 2016 did not show any significant difference from that of 2015  (take the 5% level of signi

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A health officer is trying to study the malaria situation of Zambia. From the records of 
seasonal blood survey (SBS) results he came to understand that the proportion of people 
having malaria in Zambia was 3.8% in 2015. The size of the sample considered was 15,000. 
He also realized that during the year that followed (2016), blood samples were taken from 
10,000 randomly selected persons. The result of the 2016 seasonal blood survey showed 
that 200 persons were positive for malaria. Help the Health officer in testing the hypothesis 
that the malaria situation of 2016 did not show any significant difference from that of 2015 
(take the 5% level of significance). 

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