Answer to Question #261721 in Statistics and Probability for Ryan

Question

A decade-old study found that the proportion of high school seniors who felt that "getting rich" was an important personal goal was 65

%

. Suppose that we have reason to believe that this proportion has changed, and we wish to carry out a hypothesis test to see if our belief can be supported. State the null hypothesis H

 and the alternative hypothesis H

1

 that we would use for this test.

Answer 1

$H_0: p=0.65$

$H_1: p\not=0.65$