Question #348571

A researcher claims that 13% of all motorcycle helmets have manufacturing flaws that could potentially cause injury to the wearer. A sample of 150 of these helmets revealed that 18 contained such defects.

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Expert's answer
2022-06-07T11:21:18-0400

The following null and alternative hypotheses for the population proportion needs to be tested:

H0:p=0.13H_0:p=0.13

Ha:p0.13H_a:p\not=0.13

This corresponds to a two-tailed test, for which a z-test for one population proportion will be used.

Based on the information provided, the significance level is α=0.05,\alpha = 0.05, and the critical value for a two-tailed test is zc=1.96.z_c =1.96.

The rejection region for this two-tailed test is R={z:z>1.96}.R = \{z: |z| > 1.96\}.

The z-statistic is computed as follows:


z=p^p0p0(1p0)n=181500.130.13(10.13)1500.3642z=\dfrac{\hat{p}-p_0}{\sqrt{\dfrac{p_0(1-p_0)}{n}}}=\dfrac{\dfrac{18}{150}-0.13}{\sqrt{\dfrac{0.13(1-0.13)}{150}}}\approx-0.3642

Since it is observed that z=0.3642<1.96=zc,|z|=0.3642< 1.96=z_c, it is then concluded that the null hypothesis is not rejected.

Using the P-value approach:

The p-value is p=2P(Z<0.3642)=0.715709,p=2P(Z<-0.3642)=0.715709, and since p=0.715709>0.05=α,p=0.715709>0.05=\alpha, it is concluded that the null hypothesis is not rejected.

Therefore, there is not enough evidence to claim that the population proportion pp is different than 0.13,0.13, at the α=0.05\alpha = 0.05 significance level.


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