Question

Suppose we want to test the claim that the majority of adults are in favor of raising the vote age to 21. Is the hypothesis test left tailed, right tailed or two tailed

Answer 1

Answer:

The hypothesis test is right-tailed.

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that we want to test the claim that the majority of adults are in favor of raising the voting age to 21.

Let p = proportion of adults who are in favor of raising the voting age to 21

So, Null Hypothesis, $H_0$ : p $\leq$ 50%

Alternate Hypothesis, $H_A$ : p > 50%

As we know that the majority is there when we have more 50% chance of happening of that event.

Here, the null hypothesis states that the proportion of adults who are in favor of raising the voting age to 21 is less or equal to 50%.

On the other hand, the alternate hypothesis states that the proportion of adults who are in favor of raising the voting age to 21 is more than 50%.

This shows that our hypothesis test is right-tailed because in the alternate hypothesis, the greater than sign is included.