Ice Cream Narrative A Supermarket Chain Has Its Own House Brand of Ice

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Ice Cream Narrative
A supermarket chain has its own house brand of ice cream. The general manager claims that her ice cream is better than the ice cream sold by a well-known ice cream parlour chain. To test the claim, 40 individuals are randomly selected to participate in the following experiment. Each respondent is given the two brands of ice cream to taste (without any identification) and asked to judge which one is better. Suppose that 25 people judge the ice cream parlour brand as better, 4 say that the brands taste the same, and the rest claim that the supermarket brand is better.
-Refer to Ice Cream Narrative. What is the p-value of the test in the previous question?

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Definitions:

Fixed Genetic Locus

A specific location on a chromosome where the genetic variation has become identical across all members of a population due to evolutionary processes.

Allele

A variant of a gene that occurs due to mutation and is located at an identical location on a chromosome, representing one of two or more possible versions.

Genetic Drift

A mechanism of evolution that results in the change of the frequency of alleles in a population due to random sampling of organisms.

Evolution

The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.