STATE THE NULL AND ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES OF THE FOLLOWING. NEWBORN BABIES ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE BOYS THAN GIRLS. A RANDOM SAMPLE FOUND 12,193 BOYS WERE BORN AMONG 26,468 NEWBORN CHILDREN. THE SAMPLE PROPORTION OF BOYS WAS 0.4607. IS THIS SAMPLE EVIDENCE THAT THE BIRTH OF BOYS IS LESS COMMON THAN THE BIRTH OF GIRLS IN THE ENTIRE POPULATION?

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  1. STATE THE NULL AND ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES OF THE FOLLOWING.

NEWBORN BABIES ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE BOYS THAN GIRLS. A RANDOM SAMPLE FOUND 12,193 BOYS WERE BORN AMONG 26,468 NEWBORN CHILDREN. THE SAMPLE PROPORTION OF BOYS WAS 0.4607. IS THIS SAMPLE EVIDENCE THAT THE BIRTH OF BOYS IS LESS COMMON THAN THE BIRTH OF GIRLS IN THE ENTIRE POPULATION?

 

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