Question

Is the national crime rate really going down? Some sociologists say yes! They say that the reason for the decline in crime rates in the 1980s and 1990s is demographics. It seems that the population is aging, and older people commit fewer crimes. According to the FBI and the Justice Department, 70% of all arrests are of males aged 15 to 34 years†. Suppose you are a sociologist in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and a random sample of police files showed that of 37 arrests last month, 26 were of males aged 15 to 34 years. Use a 10% level of significance to test the claim that the population proportion of such arrests in Rock Springs is different from 70%.

(a) What is the level of significance?__


State the null and alternate hypotheses.

___H₀: p = 0.7; H₁: p ≠ 0.7

___H₀: p ≠ 0.7; H₁: p = 0.7    

___H₀: p = 0.7; H₁: p > 0.7

___H₀: p = 0 .7; H₁: p < 0.7

___H₀: p < 0 .7; H₁: p = 0.7

(b) What sampling distribution will you use?

___The Student's t, since np > 5 and nq > 5.

___The Student's t, since np < 5 and nq < 5.    

___The standard normal, since np < 5 and nq < 5.

___The standard normal, since np > 5 and nq > 5.

What is the value of the sample test statistic? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)_______


(c) Find the P-value of the test statistic. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)_______

(d) Based on your answers in parts (a) to (c), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Are the data statistically significant at level α?

__At the α = 0.10 level, we reject the null hypothesis and conclude the data are statistically significant.

__At the α = 0.10 level, we reject the null hypothesis and conclude the data are not statistically significant.    

__At the α = 0.10 level, we fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude the data are statistically significant.

__At the α = 0.10 level, we fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude the data are not statistically significant.

(e) Interpret your conclusion in the context of the application.

__There is sufficient evidence at the 0.10 level to conclude that the true proportion of arrests of males aged 15 to 34 in Rock Springs differs from 70%.

__There is insufficient evidence at the 0.10 level to conclude that the true proportion of arrests of males aged 15 to 34 in Rock Springs differs from 70%.

Answer 1

Solution :

a) The level of significance IS 0.10

This is the two tailed test .

b) The null and alternative hypothesis is

H0 : p = 0.70

Ha : p 0.70

The standard normal, since np > 5 and nq > 5.

= x / n = 26 /37 = 0.7027

P0 = 0.70

1 - P0 = 1 -0.70= 0.30

Test statistic = z

= - P0 / [P0 * (1 - P0 ) / n]

= 0.7027 -0.70/ [0.70 *(0.30) /37 ]

= 0.04

P(z > 0.04) = 1 - P(z <0.04) = 0.9681

c) P-value = 0.9681

= 0.10

0.9681 > 0.10

d) At the α = 0.10 level, we fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude the data are not statistically significant.

e) There is insufficient evidence at the 0.10 level to conclude that the true proportion of arrests of males aged 15 to 34 in Rock Springs differs from 70%.