Elwin Osbourne, CIO at GFS, Inc

question 25

Multiple Choice

Elwin Osbourne, CIO at GFS, Inc., suspects that at least 25% of e-mail messages sent by GFS employees are not business related.A random sample of 300 e-mail messages was selected to test this hypothesis at the 0.01 level of significance.Fifty-four of the messages were not business related.The appropriate decision is to _______.

• A)increase the sample size
• B)gather more data
• C)reject the null hypothesis
• D)fail to reject the null hypothesis
• E)maintain status quo

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