Question

A local police chief claims that 61%61% of all drug-related arrests are never prosecuted. A sample of 700700 arrests shows that 58%58% of the arrests were not prosecuted. Using this information, one officer wants to test the claim that the number of arrests that are never prosecuted is less than what the chief stated. Is there enough evidence at the 0.020.02 level to support the officer's claim?

Step 1 of 7 :  

State the null and alternative hypotheses.

step 2

find test stat?

step3

Find p value?

step 4

single or two tailed?

step 5

decision?

Answer 1

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