A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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According to the Pew Research Center, 14% of adults rate basketball as their favorite sport. Your boss believes the proportion may be lower among adults over age 65, and wants you to collect evidence to see if this is true. You take a survey of adults over age 65, and only 12 out of 120 of them rate basketball as their favorite sport. You would like to set �=0.05. What do you conclude?
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Reject the null hypothesis because the test statistic is less than the critical value.
Fail the reject the null hypothesis because the test statistic is less than the critical value.
Fail to reject the null hypothesis because the test statistic is greater than the critical value.
Reject the null hypothesis because the test statistic is greater than the critical value.
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