In one study of smokers who tried to quit smoking with nicotine patch therapy, of the 500 that were surveyed, 240 were smoking one year after the treatment and 260 were not smoking one year after the treatment. Use a 0.05 level of significance to test the claim that among smoking Americans who try to quit with nicotine patch therapy that more than half are smoking a year after the treatment.

Give the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses statements.

Determine the type of test (one or two tailed). Also determine the proper alpha level.

Find the appropriate test statistic and state the p-value.

What is your decision about the null hypothesis?

State your final conclusions in non-symbolic English.