The mayor of a town has proposed a plan for the construction of an adjoining bridge. A political study took a sample of 1300 voters in the town and found that 48% of the residents favored construction. Using the data, a political strategist wants to test the claim that the percentage of residents who favor construction is under 51%. Testing at 0.05 level, is there evidence to support the strategist claim?

Step 1: null and alternative hypothesis

Step 2: Test statistic

Step 3: is this a 1 or 2 tailed

Step 4: P-value of the test statistic

Step 5: Reject of fail to reject the null hypothesis

Step 6: Is there sufficient or not sufficient evidence to claim the % of residents who favor construction is under 51%