A Student Wants to Determine If Pennies Are Really Fair

question 2

Multiple Choice

A student wants to determine if pennies are really fair when flipped, meaning equally likely to land heads up or tails up. He flips a random sample of 50 pennies and finds that 28 of them land heads up. If p denotes the true probability of a penny landing heads up when flipped, what are the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses?

• A)H₀: p ≥ 0.5, H_a: p < 0.5.
• B)H₀: p ≤ 0.5, H_a: p ≠ 0.5.
• C)H₀: p = 0.5, H_a: p ≠ 0.5.
• D)H₀: p ≥ 28, H_a: p < 28.

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Recognize the concept of right-wing authoritarianism and its components.

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