When Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to be a Supreme Court justice, a survey of 1036 Americans showed that
Let
(Type integers or decimals. Do not round.)
Identify the test statistic.
(Round to two dechrial places as needed.)
Identify the P-value.
(Round to three decimal places as needed.)
State the final answer: The null and alternative hypotheses are
Step 1 :State the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. The null hypothesis is that the population proportion is equal to 0.5 (i.e., 50%), which means that the majority of Americans do not disapprove of Kavanaugh. The alternative hypothesis is that the population proportion is greater than 0.5, which means that the majority of Americans disapprove of Kavanaugh. So, we have
Step 2 :Calculate the test statistic using the formula for a z-score in a proportion test, which is
Step 3 :Calculate the P-value, which is the probability of observing a test statistic as extreme as, or more extreme than, the observed test statistic, under the null hypothesis. We can find this value using a standard normal distribution table or a calculator with a normal distribution function. The calculated P-value is 0.3496581899088608.
Step 4 :Round the test statistic and the P-value to the required number of decimal places. The test statistic, rounded to two decimal places, is
Step 5 :State the final answer: The null and alternative hypotheses are