Question

5) in a study of 789 randomly selected medical lwsuit it was found that 491 of them were dropped or dismissed. use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that most medical malpractice lawsuits are dropped or dismissed.
a) which of thw following is thebhypothesis test conducted?
p>0.5
p= 0.5

p= 0.5
p<0.5

p=0.5
p>0.5

p=0.5
p€ 0.5

p<0.5
p=0.5

p€0.5
p= 0.5

b) what is the test statistic
z= ____

c) what is the p value ?
p value =_____

d) what is the conclusion about the null hypothesis
_ reject the null hypothesis because p value is greater than the significance level @
_ fail to reject the null hypothesis because the p value is greater than the significance level
_ fail to reject the null hypothesis becauee p value is less than or equal to the significance level
_ reject the null hypothesis because the p value is less than or equal to the significance level

Answer 1

_ reject the null hypothesis because the p value is less than or equal to the significance level