STATISTICS

Answer the given problem. Analyze what tool should be used.

In an article in the journal Health and Place, Hui and Bell found that among 2428 boys ages 7 to 12 years, 461 were overweight or obese. On the basis of this study, can we conclude that more than 15 percent of the boys ages 7 to 12 in the sampled population are obese or overweight? Let a = 0.05.

Follow the steps in solving the problem, namely:

1. Hypothesis ex. H0: = 9.0 H1: 9.0 2. Level of significance ex. = 0.01 3. Test Statistic ex. z = x - 0 / / n 4. Critical Region ex. graph and /2 = +-0.025 5. Computation ex. compute using formula 6. Decision ex. accept H0 since the computed z-value falls in the region of acceptance. 7. Conclusion ex. there is no reason to believe the ...