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7. Congenital syphilis is a preventable infection with the proper testing and treatment for syphilis of a pregnant person. A recent study stated, during pregnancy, pregnancy hormones can cause a biological false positive in one syphilis test. In order to accurately diagnose syphilis, both tests are conducted. The study compared the accuracy of the treponemal test and the non-treponemal test. Data for 100 pregnant persons was collected and is shown below. Treponemal Test Non-treponemal Correct Incorrect Test Correct 48 Incorrect 32 12 What is the value of the test statistic to test the hypothesis that the two tests have similar performance? ) 14.4 b) 5.9 () 5.4 d) 13.9 e) 14.1