Elementary Statistics (12th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321836960
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Chapter 8 - Hypothesis Testing - 8-4 Testing a Claim About a Mean - Beyond the Basics - Page 423: 35

Answer

a) $42.74\%$ b) $57.26\%$

Work Step by Step

a) $0.4274$ suggests that if we were to reject the null hypothesis, there is a $42.74\%$ chance that our rejection would be a valid rejection of the null hypothesis. b) The value of $0.5726$ suggests that if we were to accept the null hypothesis, there is a $57.26\%$ chance that our acceptance would be correct.
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