Data shows that 11% of fatal vehicle accidents involved large trucks. A statistician for an insurance company believes that is higher than 11%. The statistician randomly selected 200 fatal vehicle accidents and finds that 26 involve large trucks. Is the statistician correct? What is the decision for this hypothesis test? Data shows that 11% of fatal vehicle accidents involved large trucks. A statistician for an insurance company believes that is higher than 11%. The statistician randomly selected 200 fatal vehicle accidents and finds that 26 involve large trucks. Is the statistician correct? What is the decisio

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Data shows that 11% of fatal vehicle accidents involved large trucks. A statistician for an insurance company believes that is higher than 11%. The statistician randomly selected 200 fatal vehicle accidents and finds that 26 involve large trucks. Is the statistician correct? What is the decision for this hypothesis test?

Data shows that 11% of fatal vehicle accidents involved large trucks. A statistician for an insurance company believes that is higher than 11%. The statistician randomly selected 200 fatal vehicle accidents and finds that 26 involve large trucks. Is the statistician correct? What is the decision for this hypothesis test?

 Fail to reject the null because the test statistic is not in the critical region and the p-value is less than alpha.
 Fail to reject the null because the test statistic is not in the critical region and the p-value is greater than alpha.
 Reject the null because the test statistic is in the critical region and the p-value is less than alpha.
 Reject the null because the test statistic is not in the critical region and the p-value is less than alpha
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