Question

A police officer claims that the proportion of drivers wearing a seat belt in a certain area is less than 40%. To test this claim, the officer collects a random sample of 80 drivers and monitors if the driver was wearing a seat belt. From this sample of 80 drivers, the police offers observes that 34 were wearing seat belts. Assume the conditions needed to conduct a one sample proportion test are satisfied. The setup for the null and alternative hypothesis is as follows: H0:p=0.40; Ha:p<0.40, which is a left-tailed test. The test statistic and p-value for this Hypothesis test are given as follows: z=0.456, p-value=0.676. Which of the following are appropriate conclusions for this hypothesis test? Select all that apply.

Answer 1

Fail to reject the null because the p-value is greater than significance level (0.05). Therefore we have convincing evidence that the proportion of drivers wearing a seat belt is equal to 40%.

Explanation:

I am assuming that the significance level is 0.05, so we would fail to reject the null, because the p-value is 0.676 which is greater than the significance level. Whenever the p-value is greater than the signifigance level we fail to reject the null.