From a study from earlier this year, it is believed that approximately 7% of U.S. adults do not use the internet. Suppose researchers are doing a study to see if the proportion of Washington state adults that do not use the internet is lower than the reported U.S. adult proportion. The researchers decide to survey 200 randomly selected adults throughout the state of Washington. a. Define a parameter for hypothesis testing and write the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis for this study

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From a study from earlier this year, it is believed that approximately 7% of U.S. adults do
not use the internet. Suppose researchers are doing a study to see if the proportion of
Washington state adults that do not use the internet is lower than the reported U.S.
adult proportion. The researchers decide to survey 200 randomly selected adults
throughout the state of Washington.

a. Define a parameter for hypothesis testing and write the null hypothesis and
alternative hypothesis for this study

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