In a hypothesis test with hypotheses H0 :pless than or greater than 0.58  and H1 >0.58 , a random sample of size 1,165 produced a sample proportion of 0.6160. The test is to be made at the 2.5% significance level.   What is the value of the test statistic, z, rounded to three decimal places?

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In a hypothesis test with hypotheses H0 :pless than or greater than 0.58  and H1 >0.58 , a random sample of size 1,165 produced a sample proportion of 0.6160. The test is to be made at the 2.5% significance level.
 
What is the value of the test statistic, z, rounded to three decimal places?

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