Question

A newsletter publisher believes that more than 34% of their readers own a personal computer.

Is there sufficient evidence at the 0.05 level to substantiate the publisher's claim?

State the null and alternative hypotheses for the above scenario.

Ho: =

Ha: =

Answer 1

Given that, a newsletter publisher believes that more than 34% of their readers own a personal computer.

Here, claim is : p > 0.34 (34%)

Therefore, the null and alternative hypotheses are

H0 : p ≤ 0.34

Ha : p > 0.34

Note : you can also write the null hypothesis as : H0 : p = 0.34