1.

You are a nurse working for the Public Health Unit in Hamilton, Ontario. You know that

each year many people seek treatment from their family doctors for colds, and that many

people need to take time off work to recover from them. A drug company has asked you

to assist with a study to test a new drug that they have developed to prevent colds. You

recruit 100 women and 200 men from a population of 100,000 people that volunteer to be

in the study. At the end of the study, you find that 38% of women caught a cold and 51%

of men caught a cold. Use these study data to answer the following questions. Show all

supporting calculations.

a.

It would appear from comparing the proportion of women and men that caught a cold,

that the drug may be more effective in women. Can you conclude this? Assume

=0.05.

[2 Marks

how do you solves this by hand and showing calculations not using SPSS or other stats programs