The Candy Company That Makes M&M's Claims That 10% of the M&M's

question 86

Multiple Choice

The candy company that makes M&M's claims that 10% of the M&M's it produces are green.Suppose that the candies are packaged at random,and the small bags contain 25 M&M's.When we randomly pick a bag of M&M's,we may assume that this represents a simple random sample of size n = 25.Suppose that in a randomly selected small bag of M&M's,there are 5 green M&M's.At the 1% significance level,are the data statistically significant for testing if the true proportion of green M&M's is indeed equal to 10%?

• A)Yes
• B)No
• C)This cannot be determined from the information given.

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