SCENARIO 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 an 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 Scenario 9-2,what is the "actual confidence coefficient"?
A)0.13
B)0.16
C)0.84
D)0.87

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The "actual confidence coefficient" refers to the probability of correctly identifying a true condition under the null hypothesis. Since the null hypothesis is that the person is a business major, and the student can correctly identify a business major 87% of the time, the actual confidence coefficient is 0.87.

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