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A hospital director is told that 79% of the emergency room visitors are insured. The director wants to test the claim that the percentage of insured patients is under the expected percentage. A sample of 380 patients found that 285 were insured. Determine the decision rule for rejecting the null hypothesis, H0, at the 0.05 level.

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          A hospital director is told that 79% of the emergency room
visitors are insured. The director wants to test the claim that the
percentage of insured patients is under the expected percentage. A
sample of 380 patients found that 285 were insured. Determine the
decision rule for rejecting the null hypothesis, H0, at the 0.05
level.

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Elementary Statistics a Step by Step Approach

Allan G. Bluman 9th Edition

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04/20/2022

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79. Alternative Hypothesis (H1): The proportion of insured patients is less than 0.79. ** Show more…

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A hospital director is told that 79% of the emergency room visitors are insured. The director wants to test the claim that the percentage of insured patients is under the expected percentage. A sample of 380 patients found that 285 were insured. Determine the decision rule for rejecting the null hypothesis, H0, at the 0.05 level.