In: Statistics and Probability
Suppose a government bans flavored vaping products and wishes to know if this decreases the proportion of teenagers who vape at least once each month, which was known to be 16%. A survey after the ban on flavored vaping products finds that out of the 200 teenagers surveyed, 26 had vaped at least once in the previous month. Assuming no other factors influenced the survey replies, did the ban on flavored vaping products reduce the proportion of teenagers who vape at least once in a month? Use a significance level of 0.05.
(a) What are the null and alternative hypotheses?
(b) What is the test statistic?
(c) What is the critical value?
(d) Do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Explain your reasoning.
(e) Can you conclude that the ban on flavored vaping products reduced the proportion of teenagers who vaped at least once a month?