4, Answer #21 on page 1 45 of your coursepack. 14. A new diet pill was formulate

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4, Answer #21 on page 1 45 of your coursepack. 14. A new diet pill was formulated to reduce weight among obese adults. The manufacturer of the said pill claims that their product was able to reduce the weights of at least 80% of the participants in their clinical trial. A second trial was conducted to verify this claim using different sets of participants, and it was found that the pill was effective in 83% of the participants. If the null hypothesis was rejected, what type of error (if any) occurred? For all tests, include - the hypothesis (unless it's given in the problem) - the test statistic - p-value - decision - conclusion

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14)here as null hypotheiss:Ho: p<=0.80

and alternate hypothesis: Ha: p>0.80

here as we are rjecting null hypothesis which is a correct decision cause pill is effective for more than 80% of patients

hence we are not making any type of error cause it is a correct decision

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