SOLUTION: A hypothesis test was performed and the P-value came up as 0.085 Which is the most correct statement A. There is a 8.5% chance that we find a sample (more or less) extreme as t

Question 467828: A hypothesis test was performed and the P-value came up as 0.085 Which is the most correct statement
A. There is a 8.5% chance that we find a sample (more or less) extreme as the sample used in this study.
B. There is an 8.5% chance that the null will be rejected.
C. There is a 91.5% chance that we will find a sample different from the sample used in the study.
D. 0.0895 is close to zero, so this sample was pretty close to the population proportion.
E. none of these is correct

Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
E. none of these is correct.
The p-value is the probability of obtaining a TEST STATISTIC (and not a sample) at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, ASSUMING THAT THE NULL HYPOTHESIS IS TRUE.
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