Hypothesis Testing: Population proportion
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1. A student wants their College to offer Kickboxing classes as a Physical Education class. To justify that the class is desired he surveys 200 students and finds that 56% would be interested in taking the class. He goes to his Dean and tells him that based on his survey over half of the student body would be interested in taking the class.
a) State the null and alternative Hypotheses (H0 and H1).
HO:P=
b) Calculate the test statistic and the associated p-value.
c) What is the critical value for ?
d) State your conclusion (reject H0 or fail to reject H0 )and explain your reasoning.
e) Was the student's claim correct?
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The solution provides step by step method for the calculation of Z test for population proportion. Formula for the calculation and Interpretations of the results are also included. Interactive excel sheet is included. The user can edit the inputs and obtain the complete results for a new set of data.
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1. A student wants their College to offer Kickboxing classes as a Physical Education class. To justify that the class is desired he surveys 200 students and finds that 56% would be interested in taking the class. He goes to his Dean and tells him that based on his survey over half of the student body would be interested in taking the class.
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a) State the null and alternative Hypotheses (H0 and H1).
The null hypothesis ...
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