Question

The Town of Normal offers a curbside recycling to residents in single family and duplex homes. Curbside recycling is collected weekly on a regular trash collection day.

Twenty-one residents from a sample of 30 indicated that they favored curbside recycling in their city. The city council is interested in finding out whether or not there is a significant difference in the favoring and not favoring curbside recycling in their community. Use the normal approximation to the Binomial, and conduct a two-tailed test at the .10 significance level. Suppose that favoring curbside recycling was given a "+" sign and not-favoring curbside recycling a "-" sign. Conduct a test of hypothesis.

The value of the test statistic for the hypothesis test is _________.

Select one:

a. -2.01

b. 2.4

c. -2.4

d. 2.01

Answer 1

Let p denotes the true proportion of people who favored curbside recycling in their city.

ans-> d) 2.01