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Using a significance level of 0.05 I want to conduct 3 hypothesis tests using the data below. I need to state my alternative and null hypotheses and test a claim about a proportion. I would like my claim to be that over 50% of movies made cost over 1 million dollars to make. If that is not a good claim to use in order to give me an example, please feel free to change the claim.

Test a claim about the mean with the population standard deviation unknown and again would like to use the traditional method unless it won't work for my data.

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Using a significance level of 0.05 I want to conduct 3 hypothesis tests using the data below. I need to state my alternative and null hypotheses and test a claim about a proportion. I would like my claim to be that over 50% of movies made cost over 1 million dollars to make. If that is not a good claim to use in order to give me an example, please feel free to change the claim.

Test a claim about the mean with the population standard deviation unknown and again would like to use the traditional method unless it won't work for my data.

Title Gross ($) Budget ($)
in Millions in Millions

Aliens 81.843 18.5
Armageddon 194.125 140
As Good As It Gets 147.54 50
Braveheart 75.6 72
Chasing Amy 12.006 0.25
Contact 100.853 90
Dante's Peak 67.155 104
Deep Impact 140.424 75
Executive Decision 68.75 55
Forrest Gump 329.691 55
Ghost 217.631 22
Gone with the Wind 198.571 3.9
Good Will Hunting 138.339 10
Grease 181.28 6
Halloween 47 0.325
Hard Rain 19.819 70
I Know What You Did Last Summer 72.219 17
Independence Day 306.124 75
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 197.171 39
Jaws 260 12
Men in Black 250.147 90
Multiplicity 20.1 45
Pulp Fiction 107.93 8
Raiders of the Lost Ark 242.374 20
Saving Private ryan 178.091 70
Schindler's List 96.067 25
Scream 103.001 15
Speed 2:Cruise Control 48.068 110
Terminator 36.9 6.4
The American President 65 62
The Fifth Element 63.54 90
The Game 48.265 50
The Man in the Iron Mask 56.876 35
Titanic 600.743 200
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