Hypothesis Testing for a Proportion Calculator

Hypothesis Testing for a Proportion Calculator
Hypothesis Testing for a proportion Calculator

100 randomly selected items were tested. It was found that 50 of the items tested positive.
Test the hypothesis that exactly 40% of the items tested positive at α = 0.05

State the null and alternative hypothesis:

H0:  p = 0.4
HA:  p ≠ 0.4

Compute

p^  =  x
  n

p^  =  50
  100

p^ = 0.5
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