If the EPA Determines That a Pollutant Is a Threat

question 437

Multiple Choice

If the EPA determines that a pollutant is a threat to public health or the environment:

• A) Congress will impose some new standards
• B) tighter control standards are to be imposed with careful analysis of economic factors
• C) tighter control standards are to be imposed only if they will not have adverse economic effects
• D) it will eventually impose slightly stricter standards
• E) none of the other choices are correct

Understand the significance level (alpha) and its role in hypothesis testing.

Distinguish between accepting and rejecting the null hypothesis based on hypothesis test outcomes.

Identify the p-value and its importance in the interpretation of statistical results.

Grasp the basics of inferential statistics and its application in comparing sample and population.

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