Essentials of Statistics (5th Edition)

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Chapter 8 - Hypothesis Testing - 8-3 Testing a Claim about a Proportion - Page 405: 37

Answer

a. .7224 b. .2776 c. The chance is fairly high.

Work Step by Step

a. We first find the value of s: $s=\sqrt{\frac{(.6)(.4)}{50}}=.0048$ Thus, we find the value of $\hat{p}$: $\hat{p}=p+zs=.29$ Using the equation for z based on $\hat{p}$ and consulting the table of z-scores, we find that the probability is .7224. b. We find that the probability is $=1-.7224=.2776$. c. Since .7224 is a fairly good probability, we see that the chance is fairly high.
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