The mother of a teenager has heard a claim that 24% of teenagers who drive and use a cell phone reported texting while driving. She thinks that this rate is too high and wants to test the hypothesis that fewer than 24% of these drivers have texted while driving. Her alternative hypothesis is that the percentage of teenagers who have texted when driving is less than 24%. Họ: p0.24 Ha: p<0.24 She polls 50 randomly selected teenagers, and 6 of them report having texted while driving, a proportion of 0.12. The p-value is 0.023. Explain the meaning of the p-value in the context of this question. The p-value says that if the true proportion of teenagers who text while driving is . then there is only a V probability that one would get a sample proportion of V or smaller with a sample size of

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The mother of a teenager has heard a claim that 24% of teenagers who drive and use a cell phone reported texting while driving. She thinks that this rate is too high and wants to test the hypothesis that fewer than 24% of these drivers have texted while driving. Her alternative hypothesis is that the percentage of
teenagers who have texted when driving is less than 24%.
Ho: p= 0.24
Ha: p<0.24
She polls 50 randomly selected teenagers, and 6 of them report having texted while driving, a proportion of 0.12. The p-value is 0.023. Explain the meaning of the p-value in the context of this question.
The p-value says that if the true proportion of teenagers who text while driving is
then there is only a
V probability that one would get a sample proportion of
V or smaller with a sample size of
Transcribed Image Text:The mother of a teenager has heard a claim that 24% of teenagers who drive and use a cell phone reported texting while driving. She thinks that this rate is too high and wants to test the hypothesis that fewer than 24% of these drivers have texted while driving. Her alternative hypothesis is that the percentage of teenagers who have texted when driving is less than 24%. Ho: p= 0.24 Ha: p<0.24 She polls 50 randomly selected teenagers, and 6 of them report having texted while driving, a proportion of 0.12. The p-value is 0.023. Explain the meaning of the p-value in the context of this question. The p-value says that if the true proportion of teenagers who text while driving is then there is only a V probability that one would get a sample proportion of V or smaller with a sample size of
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