Question

We conduct a study to determine whether the majority of community college students plan to vote in the next presidential election. We choose a significance level of 0.05. We survey 650 randomly selected community college students and find that 54% of them plan to vote. The P-value is 0.02. H0: 50% of community college students plan to vote in the next presidential election. Ha: More than 50% of community college students plan to vote in the next presidential election. What can we conclude

Answer 1

we can conclude that more than 50% of community college students plan to vote in the next presidential election

Explanation:

Decision Rule

If;

P-value > significance level --- accept Null hypothesis

P-value < significance level --- reject Null hypothesis

Z score > Z(at 95% confidence interval) ---- reject Null hypothesis

Z score < Z(at 95% confidence interval) ------ accept Null hypothesis

Null hypothesis H0: 50% of community college students plan to vote in the next presidential election

H0: p = 0.50

Ha: More than 50% of community college students plan to vote in the next presidential election

Ha: p > 0.50

P-value = 0.02

From the decision rule;

Since the p-value for this study is less than the significance level.

0.02 < 0.05

So, we reject the null hypothesis, there is enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis. We thereby accept the alternative hypothesis.

Therefore, we can conclude that more than 50% of community college students plan to vote in the next presidential election