SCENARIO 9-2 a Student Claims That He Can Correctly Identify Whether a Whether

question 34

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 9-2
A student claims that he can correctly identify whether a person is a business major or an agriculture major by the way the person dresses.Suppose in actuality that if someone is a business major,he can correctly identify that person as a business major 87% of the time.When a person is an agriculture major,the student will incorrectly identify that person as a business major 16% of the time.Presented with one person and asked to identify the major of this person (who is either a business or an agriculture major) ,he considers this to be a hypothesis test with the null hypothesis being that the person is a business major and the alternative that the person is an agriculture major.
-Referring to Scenario 9-2,what is the "actual confidence coefficient"?

• A)0.13
• B)0.16
• C)0.84
• D)0.87

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Definitions:

Average Product

The output per unit of input, such as the quantity of goods produced per worker, used to measure productivity.

Marginal Product

The additional output that can be produced by adding one more unit of a specific input, whilst holding other inputs constant.

Total Product

The total output of goods or services produced by a firm during a given period of time.

Diminishing Marginal Returns

A principle stating that as more of a production input is added, holding all others constant, the resulting additional output will eventually decrease.