Comparing Two Independent Population Proportions · Exercise 21

Neuroinvasive West Nile virus is a severe disease that affects a person’s nervous system. It is spread by the Culex species of mosquito. In the United States in 2010, there were 629 reported cases of neuroinvasive West Nile virus out of a total of 1,021 reported cases, and there were 486 neuroinvasive reported cases out of a total of 712 cases reported in 2011. Is the 2011 proportion of neuroinvasive West Nile virus cases more than the 2010 proportion of neuroinvasive West Nile virus cases? Using a 1 percent level of significance, conduct an appropriate hypothesis test.
• 2011 subscript: 2011 group.
• 2010 subscript: 2010 group

This is

(a) a test of two proportions
(b) a test of two independent means
(c) a test of a single mean
(d) a test of matched pairs.

Its source prints no answer for this problem, so there's nothing to check against.

OpenStax, Statistics · §10.3 Comparing Two Independent Population Proportions · Exercise 21