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is worth to poits) When a recent GSS asked, "Would you be willing to pay much higher taxes in order to protect 5) tbe environment?" out of 900 people 500 people answered yes and 400 answered no. Software shows the following results to analyze whether a majority or minority of Americans would answer yes: Hypothesis test results: p: Proportion of successes Ho:p=0.5 Ha:p 05 Proportion Count Total Sample Prop. Std. Err. Z-Stat P-value 500 900 0.555 0.0166 3.33 0.0009 a) Report and interpret the test statistic value. Repor and interpret the P-value as a probability. b)

Explanation / Answer

a) The value of the test static is Z=3.33,

Which means that there is a positive difference between the sample proportion and the claimed one. That is in sample majority are in favour of paying higher taxes for protection,

b) P-value of the test is 0.0009, Since its very small as so Reject the null hypothesis.

That is there are enough evidence to support the claim that majority are in favor of paying higher taxes