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document.write( "1. The EPA is concerned about the quality of drinking water served on airline flights. A sample of 158 flights yielded poor quality water on 20 flights. At alpha=.05, does this indicate that more than 10% of flights have poor-quality water?\r
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document.write( "2. According to the sample, 12.66% (20/158) of the flights served poor-quality water. Can you simply report to the EPA that more than 10% of all airline flights serve poor-quality water? Why or why not?\r
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document.write( "3. If an error occurred, what type of error was it?
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Algebra.Com's Answer #94957 by stanbon(75887)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! 1. The EPA is concerned about the quality of drinking water served on airline flights. \n" ); document.write( " A sample of 158 flights yielded poor quality water on 20 flights. At alpha=.05, does this indicate that more than 10% of flights have poor-quality water? \n" ); document.write( "-------- \n" ); document.write( "Ho: p = 0.10 \n" ); document.write( "Ha: p > 0.10 (right-tail test with alpha = 5%) \n" ); document.write( "--------------- \n" ); document.write( "Critical value = 1.645 \n" ); document.write( "-------------------- \n" ); document.write( "p-hat = 20/158 = 0.1266 \n" ); document.write( "Test Statistic: \n" ); document.write( "z(0.1266) = (0.1266-0.10)/sqrt(0.1*0.9/158)= 46.69777... \n" ); document.write( "-------------------------- \n" ); document.write( "Since the test statistic is greater than the critical value \n" ); document.write( "reject Ho. There is strong statistical evidence that the \n" ); document.write( "proportion pf poor quality is not 10% \r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "2. According to the sample, 12.66% (20/158) of the flights served poor-quality water. Can you simply report to the EPA that more than 10% of all airline flights serve poor-quality water? Why or why not? \n" ); document.write( "Since this is a test of Ho that p = 10% you can only report that the \n" ); document.write( "test shows significant statistical evidence that the proportion is not 10%. \n" ); document.write( "--------------------------- \n" ); document.write( "3. If an error occurred, what type of error was it? \n" ); document.write( "Type I; rejecting Ho when in fact it is true. \n" ); document.write( "======================= \n" ); document.write( "Cheers, \n" ); document.write( "Stan H.\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |