Question

A college administrator predicts that the proportion of students that are nursing majors is greater than 40%. To test this, a group of 400 students are randomly selected and it's determined that 190 are nursing majors. The following is the setup for this hypothesis test:

H0:p=0.40
Ha:p>0.40

In this example, the p-value was determined to be 0.001. Find the conclusion and interpret the results for this hypothesis test for a proportion (use a significance level of 5%)

Answer 1

p value= 0.131

Explanation:

Since we have calculated the test statistic, we can now proceed to find the p-value for this hypothesis test.Using the test statistic and since the hypothesis test is a left tailed test, the p-value will then be the area under the standard normal curve to the left of the test statistic of -1.12.Using the Standard Normal table given above, the area under the standard normal curve to the left of the test statistic of -1.12 is 0.131 (rounded to 3 decimal places.Thus the p-value = 0.131.