TABLE 9-2
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 if someone is a business major, he can correctly identify that person as a business major 87% of the time. When a person is an agriculture major, the student will incorrectly identify that person as a business major 16% of the time. 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.
-Referring to Table 9-2, what is the value of ??
A) 0.87
B) 0.16
C) 0.84
D) 0.13

Question

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The value of ?? refers to the probability of a Type I error, which is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true. Since the null hypothesis is that the person is a business major, the probability of incorrectly identifying a business major as an agriculture major is 1 - 0.87 = 0.13.

TABLE 9-2 a Student Claims That He Can Correctly Identify Whether a Whether