Question

In a study of 788 randomly selected medical malpractice​ lawsuits, it was found that 494 of them were dropped or dismissed. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that most medical malpractice lawsuits are dropped or dismissed.

Which of the following is the hypothesis test to be conducted?
A.
Upper H 0 : p less than 0.5
Upper H 1 : p equals 0.5
B.
Upper H 0 : p greater than 0.5
Upper H 1 : p equals 0.5
C.
Upper H 0 : p equals 0.5
Upper H 1 : p not equals 0.5
D.
Upper H 0 : p equals 0.5
Upper H 1 : p less than 0.5
E.
Upper H 0 : p not equals 0.5
Upper H 1 : p equals 0.5
F.
Upper H 0 : p equals 0.5
Upper H 1 : p greater than 0.5
What is the test statistic?
Z =
(Round to two decimal places as needed.)
What is the conclusion about the null hypothesis?
A. Reject the null hypothesis because the P-value is greater than the significance level, alpha.
B. Fail to reject the null hypothesis because the P-value is less than or equal to the significance level, alpha.
C. Fail to reject the null hypothesis because the P-value is greater than the significance level, alpha.
D. Reject the null hypothesis because the P-value is less than or equal to the significance level, alpha.
What is the final conclusion?
A.There is sufficient evidence to support the claim that most medical malpractice lawsuits are dropped or dismissed.
B.There is not sufficient evidence to support the claim that most medical malpractice lawsuits are dropped or dismissed.
C.There is sufficient evidence to warrant rejection of the claim that most medical malpractice lawsuits are dropped or dismissed.
D.There is not sufficient evidence to warrant rejection of the claim that most medical malpractice lawsuits are dropped or dismissed.

Answer 1

Explanation:

A. Upper H 0 : p equals 0.5

Upper H 1 : p not equals 0.5

B. Using the tests promotion formula, we have (p - P) / √P(1-P)

Where p (sample promotion) = 494/788 = 0.6269, P (population proportion) = 0.5,

(0.6269 - 0.5) / (√0.5(1-0.5))

0.1269/ √(0.5 (0.5))

0.1269/ √0.25

0.1269/0.5

Test statistics is equal to 0.2538

C. We will use the p value to determine our result, thus the p value at 0.05 level of significance is 0.79965, thus we fail to reject the null hypothesis because the P-value is greater than the significance level, alpha.

Then we conclude that There is not sufficient evidence to support the claim that most medical malpractice lawsuits are dropped or dismissed.