A certain television station has been providing live coverage of a particularly sensational criminal trial. The station's progra
m director wishes to know whether more than half the potential viewers prefer a return to regular daytime programming. A survey of randomly selected viewers is conducted. Let p represent the proportion of all viewers who prefer regular daytime programming. What hypotheses should the program director test to answer the question of interest
The the claim to test and determine if a signifant evidence for is if more than half of viewers want a return to original day time program. Since, this is
Since, p is the proportion who prefer the regular day time program;
The hypothesis to test is :
If p > 0.5 `; this represents the alternative hypothesis which we want to check if it we have significant evidence to adopt the claim.
The Null value on the other hand will take the a proportion equal to the p: and it is the initial truth until the alternative has a strong evidence to reject the null.
