Question

In the following please select whether a hypothesis test or a confidence interval is most appropriate.

a. A business owner wants to know what proportion of sales occur online for their store.
b. A book publisher wants to know if more than 25% of customers buy an entire book series all at once instead of as individual books.
c. A professor wants to know the proportion of students who regularly show up to class.
d. A researcher is interested in seeing if less than 50% of Americans support the tariffs on Chinese goods.

Answer 1

A. Confidence interval

B. Hypothesis test

C. Confidence interval

D. Hypothesis test

Explanation:

A hypothesis a hypothesis test is done in statistics whereby the person carrying out the test, tests an assumption concerning a population interval.

Confidence interval can be gotten from the statistics of observed data it provides a given range of values for a parameter that is not known.

A.we use the confidence interval here

B. We use the hypothesis test

C. The confidence interval is the appropriate test

D. The hypothesis would be best