Step 1 :The problem is asking for the critical value(s) of the test statistic for a two-tailed test. The significance level is given as 0.01. In a two-tailed test, the significance level is divided by 2, and we look up the critical value for 0.005 in the z-table.
Step 2 :The critical value is the z-score such that the area to its right (for an upper-tailed test) or to its left (for a lower-tailed test) is equal to the significance level. Since this is a two-tailed test, we will have two critical values, one positive and one negative.
Step 3 :Let's calculate the critical values. For a significance level of 0.005, the positive critical value is approximately 2.576 and the negative critical value is approximately -2.576.
Step 4 :\(\boxed{2.576, -2.576}\) are the critical values for the two-tailed test at a significance level of 0.01.