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1 Test the claim that the proportion of people who own cats is significantly dif

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Question

1 Test the claim that the proportion of people who own cats is significantly different than 30% at the 0.02 significance level.

The null and alternative hypothesis would be:

a H0:=0.3H0:=0.3
H1:0.3H1:0.3

b H0:0.3H0:0.3
H1:>0.3H1:>0.3

c H0:0.3H0:0.3
H1:<0.3H1:<0.3

d H0:p0.3H0:p0.3
H1:p>0.3H1:p>0.3

e H0:p=0.3H0:p=0.3
H1:p0.3H1:p0.3

f H0:p0.3H0:p0.3
H1:p<0.3H1:p<0.3



The test is:

A right-tailed

B two-tailed

C left-tailed



Based on a sample of 400 people, 25% owned cats

The test statistic is:  (to 2 decimals)

The p-value is:  (to 2 decimals)

Based on this we:

A Reject the null hypothesis

B Fail to reject the null hypothesis

Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

One sample proportion summary hypothesis test:
p : Proportion of successes
H0 : p = 0.3
HA : p 0.3

Hypothesis test results:

Hence,

Hypotheses:

H0: p = 0.3
H1: p 0.3

The test is two - tailed.

Test statistic = -2.18

P - value = 0.03

Fail to reject the null hypothesis

Proportion Count Total Sample Prop. Std. Err. Z-Stat P-value p 100 400 0.25 0.022912878 -2.1821789 0.0291