In Testing the Hypotheses $H _ { 0 } : p = 0.50$

question 88

Multiple Choice

In testing the hypotheses: $H _ { 0 } : p = 0.50$ $H _ { 1 } : p \neq 0.50$ , at the 10% significance level, if the sample proportion is 0.56, and the standard error of the sample proportion is 0.025, the appropriate conclusion is:

• A) to reject \(\mathcal { H } _ { 0 }\) .
• B) not to reject \(\mathcal { H } _ { 0 }\) .
• C) to reject \(H _ { 1 }\) .
• D) to reject both \(\mathcal { H } _ { 0 }\) and \(H _ { 1 }\) .

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