A manufacturer claims that less than 1% of all his products do not meet the minimum government standards. A survey of 500 products revealed ten did not meet the standard. If the z-statistic is -2.054 and the level of significance is 0.03, what is your decision?
A) You reject the null hypothesis, and agree that less than 1% fail to meet government standards.
B) You have insufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis.
C) You reject the alternate hypothesis and agree that less than 1% meet government standards.
D) You should have used the t-test.

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The z-statistic of -2.054 falls in the critical region for a significance level of 0.03, indicating that we reject the null hypothesis and agree that less than 1% fail to meet government standards.

A Manufacturer Claims That Less Than 1% of All His