Question

Your friend tells you that the proportion of active Major League Baseball players who have a batting average greater than .300 is less than 0.77, a claim you would like to test. The hypotheses here are Null Hypothesis: p ≥ 0.77, Alternative Hypothesis: p < 0.77. If you take a random sample of players and calculate p-value for your hypothesis test of 0.1427, what is the appropriate conclusion? Conclude at the 5% level of significance.

Question 6 options:

1) We did not find enough evidence to say a significant difference exists between the proportion of MLB players that have an average higher than .300 and 0.77

2) We did not find enough evidence to say the proportion of active MLB players that have an average higher than .300 is larger than 0.77.

3) The proportion of active MLB players that have an average higher than .300 is significantly less than 0.77.

4) We did not find enough evidence to say the proportion of active MLB players that have an average higher than .300 is less than 0.77.

5) The proportion of active MLB players that have an average higher than .300 is greater than or equal to 0.77.

Answer 1