Q 4.6: In a survey of 1,000 adults living in a big city, 540 participants said that they prefer to get news from the Internet, 330 prefer to watch news on TV, and 130 are rarely interested in the current news. We want to test if the proportion of people getting the news from the Internet is more than 50%. By generating the randomization distribution, we find that the p-value is 0.0057. Choose the correct statement interpreting the p-value.

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Trevon Berger

Mathematics

24 August, 03:58

Q 4.6: In a survey of 1,000 adults living in a big city, 540 participants said that they prefer to get news from the Internet, 330 prefer to watch news on TV, and 130 are rarely interested in the current news. We want to test if the proportion of people getting the news from the Internet is more than 50%. By generating the randomization distribution, we find that the p-value is 0.0057. Choose the correct statement interpreting the p-value.

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Karissa Bates · Answer 1

Option E is correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

In a survey of 1,000 adults living in a big city, 540 participants said that they prefer to get news from the Internet, 330 prefer to watch news on TV, and 130 are rarely interested in the current news. We want to test if the proportion of people getting the news from the Internet is more than 50%. By generating the randomization distribution, we find that the p-value is 0.0057. Choose the correct statement interpreting the p-value.

A. If the proportion of people getting the news from the Internet is not equal to 0.5 then there is a 0.0057 chance of seeing the sample proportion as extreme as the survey results.

B. If the proportion of people getting the news from the Internet is not equal to 0.54 then there is a 0.0057 chance of seeing the sample proportion as extreme as the survey results.

C. If the proportion of people getting the news from the Internet is equal to 0.54 then there is a 0.0057 chance of seeing the sample proportion less extreme compared to the survey results. р

D. If the proportion of people getting the news from the Internet is equal to 0.54 then there is a 0.0057 chance of seeing the sample proportion as extreme as the survey results.

E. If the proportion of people getting the news from the Internet is equal to 0.5 then there is a 0.0057 chance of seeing the sample proportion as extreme as the survey results.

The correct interpretation of P value will be:

if the proportion of people getting the news from internet is equal to 0.5 then there is a 0.0057 chance of seeing the sample proportion as extreme as survey results.

Option E is correct.