Hypothesis testing-population proportion

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Please explain how you obtained your results.

1. A student wants their College to offer Kickboxing classes as a Physical Education class. To justify that the class is desired he surveys 200 students and finds that 56% would be interested in taking the class. He goes to his Dean and tells him that based on his survey over half of the student body would be interested in taking the class.

a) State the null and alternative Hypotheses (H0 and H1).

HO:P=

b) Calculate the test statistic and the associated p-value.

c) What is the critical value for ?

d) State your conclusion (reject H0 or fail to reject H0 )and explain your reasoning.

e) Was the student's claim correct?

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