In a program designed to help patients stop smoking, 181 patients were given sustained care, and 84.5% of them were no longer smoking after one month. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that 79% of patients stop smoking when given sustained care. Use the P-value method. Use the normal distribution as an approximation to the binomial distribution. identify the test statistic.  identify the P-value.

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In a program designed to help patients stop smoking, 181 patients were given sustained care, and 84.5% of them were no longer smoking after one month. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that 79% of patients stop smoking when given sustained care. Use the P-value method. Use the normal distribution as an approximation to the binomial distribution.

identify the test statistic. 

identify the P-value. 

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