A student believes that no more than 20% (i.e., ?20%) of the students who finish a statistics course get an A. A random sample of 100 students was taken. Twenty-four percent of the students in the sample received 'A's

a. State the null and alternative hypotheses.
b. Using the critical value approach, test the hypotheses at the 1% level of significance.
c. Using the p-value approach, test the hypotheses at the 1% level of significance.


a. H0: p ? .2
Ha: p > .2
b. Do not reject H0; test statistic z = 1 < 2.33
c. Do not reject H0; p-value = .1587 > .01

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