The crab spider, Thomisus spectabilis, sits on flowers and preys upon visiting honeybees. Do honeybees distinguish between flowers that have crab spiders and flowers that do not? To test this, Heiling et al. (2003) gave 33 bees a choice between two flowers, one of which had a crab spider and the other of which did not. In 24 of the 33 trials, the bees picked the flower that had the spider. In the remaining nine trials, the bees chose the spiderless flower. With these data, carry out the appropriate hypothesis test, using an appropriate approximation. (This problem is from Ch. 10 "The Normal Distribution" if that affects the procedure at all.)

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The significant evidence to conclude that bees do not distinguish between flowers with spiders and flowers without spiders at a 5% level of significance.

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The crab spider, Thomisus spectabilis, sits on flowers and preys upon visiting honeybees. To test this, Heiling et al. (2003) gave 33 bees a choice between two flowers, one of which had a crab spider and the other of which did not. In 24 of the 33 trials, the bees picked the flower that had the spider.

[tex]\rm H_o : p =0.5[/tex]  (The bees correctly identifies the flower with spider)

Versus

[tex]\rm H_o : p \neq 0.5[/tex]  (The bees Wrongly identifies the flower with spider)

From the observation of 33 trials, the simple proportion is given as

[tex]\rm \hat{p} = \dfrac{24}{33} = 0.7273[/tex]

Under the null hypothesis, the test statistics are defined as

[tex]\rm z = \dfrac{\hat{p} - p}{SE\hat^{p}}[/tex]

[tex]\rm z = \dfrac{\hat{p} - 0.5}{\sqrt{\frac{p(1-p)}{n}}}\\\\\\z = \dfrac{0.7273 - 0.5}{\sqrt{\frac{0.5(1-0.5)}{33}}}\\\\\\z = 2.61[/tex]

The p-value of the test statistics for a two-tailed test is defined as

p-value [tex]\rm = P(|z| > 2.61) = 2*P(z \leq -2.61) = 0.0090[/tex]

As the p-value is less than α = 0.05 level of significance, we reject the null hypothesis.

Therefore, we have significant evidence to conclude that bees do not distinguish between flowers with spiders and flowers without spiders at a 5% level of significance.

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