Complete Question
A research center claims that 30% of adults in a certain country would travel into space on a commercial flight if they could afford it. In a random sample of 700 adults in that country, 34% say that they would travel into space on a commercial flight if they could afford it. At , is there enough evidence to reject the research center's claim
Answer:
Yes there is sufficient evidence to reject the research center's claim.
Step-by-step explanation:
From the question we are told that
The population proportion is p = 0.30
The sample proportion is [tex]\r p = 0.34[/tex]
The sample size is n = 700
The null hypothesis is [tex]H_o : p = 0.30[/tex]
The alternative hypothesis is [tex]H_a : p \ne 0.30[/tex]
Here we are going to be making use of level of significance = 0.05 to carry out this test
Now we will obtain the critical value of [tex]Z_{\alpha }[/tex] from the normal distribution table , the value is [tex]Z_{\alpha } = 1.645[/tex]
Generally the test statistics is mathematically represented as
[tex]t = \frac{ \r p - p }{ \sqrt{ \frac{ p (1-p)}{n} } }[/tex]
substituting values
[tex]t = \frac{ 0.34 - 0.30 }{ \sqrt{ \frac{ 0.30 (1-0.30 )}{ 700} } }[/tex]
[tex]t = 2.31[/tex]
Looking at the values of t and [tex]Z_{\alpha }[/tex] we see that [tex]t > Z_{\alpha }[/tex] hence the null hypothesis is rejected
Thus we can conclude that there is sufficient evidence to reject the research center's claim.
