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A coin was flipped 60 times and came up heads 38 times. (a) At the .10 level of significance, is the coin biased toward heads? Show your decision rule and calculations. (b) Calculate a p-value and interpret it.

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A coin was flipped 60 times and came up heads 38 times.

(a) At the .10 level of significance, is the coin biased toward heads? Show your decision rule and calculations.

Our null hypothesis is that the coin is not biased towards heads (the hypothesis we will try to disprove), and our alternate hypothesis is the coin is biased towards heads.

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