Question

A company in the food industry stores a large number of canned goods in a central warehouse. Last year, 3% of the canned goods had damage (for example, ugly worms or dents in the can), and the warehouse manager suspects it could be even worse this year.

To investigate this, we randomly selected 260 of the preserves and of these, 13 have
damage.
(a) Conduct hypothesis testing to test if the warehouse manager's suspicions can be considered where
Acknowledged.
(b) Formulate an interpretation of the P-value for the test in the (a) assignment. (The P value is
probability of ...)
(c) If we did the investigation, how could we do it to get higher?
strength of the test in the (a) assignment? Justify the answer.
(d) Describe what a Type I error and a Type II error would mean in this context.

Answer 1