In: Statistics and Probability
8 A local article reported that nationally 15% of all traffic accidents this year were attributed to road rage. A random sample of 80 accident reports from your county in the last month indicate that 10 were due to road rage.
a. Find ?̂.
b. Find a confidence interval for the population mean (to 3 decimal places). Note which software you use, or use a formula.
c. If you were going to perform a hypothesis test to prove that your county’s road rage accident rate is lower than the national average, what would your hypotheses be?
d. Complete a hypothesis test to determine if there is enough statistical evidence to support your hypothesis in part c. Use a 0.10 level of significance. Indicate what your critical value is, your p-value & write a conclusion in the context of the your hypotheses.