Professor Jureidini believes that the proportion of people in Southeast Texas that believe that College math should be required for graduation is less that 40%.
Test his claim by conducting a poll and performing a hypothesis test.
What is the Null Hypothesis?
What is the alternate hypothesis?
Describe how you conducted your poll (at least 30 people) and tell me what kind of sample it was (stratified, cluster,...?).
Perform the hypothesis test and give your results at a 95% confidence level.
Answer
Professor Jureidini believes that the proportion of people in Southeast Texas that believe that College math...
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