Question

A student claims that he can correctly identify whether a person is a business major or an agriculture major by the way the person dresses. suppose in actuality that he can correctly identify a business major 87% of the time, while 16% of the time he mistakenly identifies an agriculture major as a business major. presented with one person and asked to identify the major of this person (who is either a business or agriculture major), he considers this to be a hypothesis test with the null hypothesis being that the person is a business major and the alternative that the person is an agriculture major.

Answer 1

A business major 87% of the time, while 16% of the time mistakenly identifies an agriculture major.