Consider a drug testing company that provides a test for marijuana usage. Among 251 tested​ subjects, results from 27 subjects were wrong​ (either a false positive or a false​ negative). Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that less than 10 percent of the test results are wrong. A.dentify the null and alternative hypotheses for this test. B. Identify the​ P-value for this hypothesis test. C.Identify the conclusion for this hypothesis test.(reject or fail to reject and why?) D.Does the accuracy rate appear to be​ acceptable? (is there or is there not sufficent evidance to reject the claim and why?)

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Consider a drug testing company that provides a test for marijuana usage. Among 251 tested​ subjects, results from 27 subjects were wrong​ (either a false positive or a false​ negative). Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that less than 10 percent of the test results are wrong.

A.dentify the null and alternative hypotheses for this test.

B. Identify the​ P-value for this hypothesis test.

C.Identify the conclusion for this hypothesis test.(reject or fail to reject and why?)

D.Does the accuracy rate appear to be​ acceptable? (is there or is there not sufficent evidance to reject the claim and why?)

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a.

The hypotheses are given below:

Null hypothesis:

H0: p=0.1.

Alternative hypothesis:

H1:p<0.10.

Since the alternative hypothesis has greater than sign, the test is left-tailed test.

b.

The sample proportion, p-cap is 0.1076(=27/251).

A sample of 251 is considered.

Here, the z-test for single proportion is used.

Calculation:

The test statistic is given and calculated as follows.

z=p^-PP1-Pn=0.1076-0.10.11-0.1251=0.4013

 

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