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Chapter 8: Q21 (page 372)

Critical Values. In Exercises 21–24, refer to the information in the given exercise and do the following.

a. Find the critical value(s).

b. Using a significance level of = 0.05, should we reject H0or should we fail to reject H0?

Exercise 17

Short Answer

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a. The critical value is equal to 1.645.

b. The decision of the statistical test is to fail to rejectH0

Step by step solution

01

Given information

A test statistic value of z=1.00 is obtained, and the claim to be tested is p>0.3.

02

Hypotheses and tail of the test

In correspondence with the given claim, the following hypotheses are set up:

Null Hypothesis: p=0.3

Alternative Hypothesis: p>0.3

Since there is a greater than sign in the alternative hypothesis, the test is right-tailed.

03

Critical value

a.

Referring to the standard normal table, the critical value of z corresponding to the right-tailed test at α=0.05 is equal to 1.645.

04

Decision about the test

b.

If the test statistic value is greater than the critical value, then the null hypothesis is rejected.

Here, the test statistic value (1.00) is less than the critical value (1.645), so the decision is to fail to reject the null hypothesis.

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