A Hypothesis Test Is Performed to Test the Claim That

question 171

Multiple Choice

A hypothesis test is performed to test the claim that a population proportion is greater than 0.7. Find the probability of a type II error, β, given that the true value of the population proportion is 0.72. The sample size is
50 and the significance level is 0.05.

• A) 0.4129
• B) 0.7123
• C) 0.9706
• D) 0.5754

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