Question

After a tropical storm in a certain state, news reports indicated that 19 percent of households in the state lost power during the storm. A state engineer believes that estimate is too low. The engineer will collect data to perform a hypothesis test on the proportion of all households without power. Which of the following are the appropriate hypotheses for such a test?

Answer 1

Answer:

D

Step-by-step explanation:

The null hypothesis is that p=0.19. The engineer says that this estimate is too low, meaning he believes the true proportion is greater than 0.19 - p>0.19. Because this is a proportion of ALL houses in the state, we use p rather than phat, leaving D as the correct answer.