In the last presidential election, a national survey company claimed that no more than 50% (i.e., < 50%) of all registered voters voted for the Republican candidate. In a random sample of 400 registered voters, 208 voted for the Republican candidate

a. State the null and the alternative hypotheses.
b. Compute the test statistic.
c. Compute the p-value, and test the hypotheses using a 5% level of significance.


a. H0: p ? .5
Ha: p > .5
b. z = .8
c. p-value = .2119 > .05; do not reject H0.

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