(a) What is the level of significance? (b)What is the value of the sample test statistic? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) (c) Find the P-value of the test statistic. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
Is the national crime rate really going down? Some sociologists say yes! They say that the reason for the decline in crime rates in the 1980s and 1990s is demographics. It seems that the population is aging, and older people commit fewer crimes. According to the FBI and the Justice Department, 70% of all arrests are of males aged 15 to 34 years†. Suppose you are a sociologist in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and a random sample of police files showed that of 34 arrests last month, 21 were of males aged 15 to 34 years. Use a 1% level of significance to test the claim that the population proportion of such arrests in Rock Springs is different from 70%.
(c) Find the P-value of the test statistic. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
(a)
The significance level is 1%. Thus, the level of significance is 0.01.
(b)
Let p denotes the population proportion of such arrests in Rock Springs. The claim of the test is that the population proportion of such arrests in Rock Springs is different from 70%. The hypothesis is,
Null hypothesis:
Alternative hypothesis:
The sample proportion is,
The sample proportion is 0.6176.
The value of the sample test statistic is,
Thus, the value of the sample test statistic is -1.05.
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