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Small-Sample Hypothesis Test According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2009, 7.8% of Americans had a travel time to work of more than 60 minutes. An urban economist believes that the percentage of Americans who have a travel time to work of more than 60 minutes has increased since then. She randomly selects 80 working Americans and finds that 11 of them have a travel time to work that is more than 60 minutes. Test the urban economist’s belief at the α = 0.1 level of significance.

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Problem 30AYU

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Small-Sample Hypothesis Test According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2009, 7.8% of Americans had a travel time to work of more than 60 minutes. An urban economist believes that the percentage of Americans who have a travel time to work of more than 60 minutes has increased since then. She randomly selects 80 working Americans and finds that 11 of them have a travel time to work that is more than 60 minutes. Test the urban economist’s belief at the α = 0.1 level of significance.

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 The sampling distribution of a count variable is only well-described by the binomial distribution is cases where the population size is significantly larger than the sample size. As a general rule, the binomial distribution should not be applied to observations from a simple random sample (SRS) unless the population size is at least 10 times larger than the sample size.

 The Hypotheses can be expressed as

       

       

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at the α = 0.1 level of significance

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