Consider the Claim That 60% of the Members of a Population

question 46

Multiple Choice

Consider the claim that 60% of the members of a population of bacteria have a plasmid conferring antibiotic resistance. If we collected 11 bacterial samples and 4 proved to have the resistance plasmid, what would the P-value of a binomial test of this hypothesis be?

• A) 0.0666
• B) 0.0701
• C) 0.1401
• D) 0.3636

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