Ap Stat Question

Question

A certain TV station has been providing live coverage of a particularly sensational criminal trial. The station’s program 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 to be conducted. Let p represent the true proportion of viewers who prefer regular daytime programming. What hypotheses should the program director test to answer the question of interest?

Answer 1

Hi Andrea!

As someone who works with news and statistics, love to see this example :)

Since the news director wants to know whether more than half want to return to regular daytime programming, you're looking at a null hypothesis that doesn't say that and an alternative hypothesis that does.

Null (H-knot): The proportion of viewers who want a return to daytime viewing is less than 50%

Alternative hypothesis: The proportion of viewers who want a return to daytime viewing is not less than 50% (which would of course be greater than or equal to 50%)

Good luck!