The mayor of a town believes that 29% of the residents favor construction of a new community. A community group believes this is inaccurate and decides to perform a hypothesis test to dispute the mayor's claim. After information is gathered from 130 voters and a hypothesis test is completed, the group fails to reject the null hypothesis at the 0.02 level.
What is the conclusion regarding the mayor's claim?
A. There is not sufficient evidence at the 0.02 level of
significance to say that the percentage of residents who support
the construction is not 29%.
B. There is sufficient evidence at the 0.02 level of significance
to say that the percentage of residents who support the
construction is not 29%.
Solution;
This is a two tailed test.
There is fail to reject the null hypothesis.
There is not sufficient evidence at the 0.02 level of significance to say that the percentage of residents who support the construction is not 29%.
Option A is correct.
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