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    IB Math AIHL
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    Inference & Hypotheses
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    [Maximum mark: 6]

    A doctor claims that ​20%​ of people in the United States are overweight. A university believes the true proportion to be much higher. They take a simple random sample of 100 Americans and find that 31 of them are overweight. The university team decides to conduct a z-test for proportion on the data with significance level ​5%.

    1. State the null and alternative hypotheses for this test.

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    2. Find the ​p​-value for this test.

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    3. State the outcome of the test.

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