document.write( "Question 888185: An experiment tests whether or not dogs can detect cancer by sniffing 7 urine vials, one of which was from a cancer patient. When the hypothesis is tested that the dogs randomly guess, H0: p = 1/7, against the hypothesis that the dogs do not randomly guess, Ha: p not equal 1/7, a P-value of 0.05 is obtained. \r \n" );
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document.write( "A. What would the decision be for a significance level of 0.08?\r \n" );
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document.write( "Answer: The null hypothesis would be rejected and the conclusion would be that the dogs must be able to detect which vial is from the cancer patient.\r \n" );
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document.write( "B. If the decision in part (a) is in error, what type of error is it? Explain using the context of the experiment.\r \n" );
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document.write( "A - A Type I Error - The P value would cause the rejection of the hypothesis that the dogs randomly guess when in reality they have a method for determining the cancer vial.\r \n" );
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document.write( "B- A Type II error - The P value would cause the rejection of the hypothesis that the dogs randomly guess when in reality they do randomly guess.\r \n" );
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document.write( "C - A Type I error - The P value would cause the rejection of the hypothesis that the dogs randomly guess when in reality they do randomly guess.\r \n" );
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document.write( "D. A Type II error - The P value would not cause rejection of the hypothesis that the dogs randomly guess when in reality they have a method for determining the cancer vial. \r \n" );
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document.write( "(I'm not sure which answer it is.) \n" );
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