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How do you know if a p-value is statistically significant?

Important Questions on Hypothesis Testing

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An archer claims that her skill at firing arrows is such that she can hit the bullseye 40% of the time. A hypothesis test at the 5% significance level is carried out to test if the archer is as good as she claims to be. The archer fires 12 arrows at a target.

Find the rejection region.

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A television channel claims that 25% of its programmes are nature programmes. Yolande thinks the percentage claimed is too high. To test her hypothesis, she chooses 20 programmes at random.

If there are only two nature programmes, calculate the test statistic. What conclusion does Yolande reach? Significance level is 10%.

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For testing H0:μ=μ0 Against H1:μ<μ0, what is the critical value at α =0.01.

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A manufacturer sells bags of 20 marbles in mixed colours. It claims that 30% of the marbles are red. Ginny thinks this is incorrect and tests the claim by opening a bag of marbles and counting how many are red.

Carry out a hypothesis test at the 10% level of significance given that Ginny finds three red marbles.

Suppose Ginny thinks the percentage should be lower than 30%. State the hypotheses. Will Ginny's conclusion change?

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A farmer finds that 30% of his sheep are deficient in a particular mineral. He changes their feed and tests 80 sheep to find out if the number has decreased.

Using a suitable approximating distribution, carry out a hypothesis test at the 10% significance level given that 19 of the sheep are mineral deficient.

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Critical value at 5% level of significance for two-tailed large sample test is

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It is claimed that the proportion of people worldwide with mixed-handedness (people who swap between hands to perform different tasks) is 1%. Amie thinks this proportion is incorrect. She interviews 600 people, and finds that 11 of them are mixed-handed. Test the claim at the 4% significance level.
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A television channel claims that 25% of its programmes are nature programmes. Yolande thinks the percentage claimed is too high. To test her hypothesis, she chooses 20 programmes at random.

If there are only two nature programmes, calculate the test statistic. If the significance level was 5%, what conclusion would Yolande reach?

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Critical value at 5% level of significance for two-tailed large sample test is

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A supplier of duck hatching eggs claims that up to 80% of its duck eggs will produce ducklings. Gareth orders 16 duck hatching eggs and carries out a hypothesis test at the 10% significance level to test this claim.

Find the rejection region.

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It is claimed that 40% of professional footballers cannot explain the offside rule. Alberto thinks the percentage is lower. To test this, he asks 15 professional footballers to explain the offside rule. Carry out a hypothesis test at the 5% significance level given that two of the professional footballers asked cannot explain the rule.
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For testing H0:μ=μ0 Against H1:μ<μ0, what is the critical value at α = 0.01

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A manufacturer sells bags of 20 marbles in mixed colours. It claims that 30% of the marbles are red. Ginny thinks this is incorrect and tests the claim by opening a bag of marbles and counting how many are red.

Carry out a hypothesis test at the 10% level of significance given that Ginny finds three red marbles. Find the critical value for this test.

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When H1 is a one-sided (right) alternative hypothesis, the critical region is determined by 
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When H1 is a one-sided (right) alternative hypothesis, the critical region is determined by 
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The critical value (table value) of the test statistic at the level of significance α for a two-tailed large sample test is 
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To test the claim that a coin is biased towards tails, it is flipped nine times. Tails appears seven times.

test at the 5% significance level whether the claim is justified.