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toothpaste A consumer advocacy group is highly suspicious of

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toothpaste A consumer advocacy group is highly suspicious of

toothpaste A consumer advocacy group is highly suspicious of this claim and randomly surveys 269 dentists They find that 95 7 of the sample recommends the given brand of toothpaste Using a significance level of 0 5 test the hypothesis that the proportion of all dentists who recommend this brand of toothpaste is different than 90 State the null and alternative hypothesis for this test Ho H Determine if this test is left tailed right tailed or two tailed Oleft tailed right tailed two tailed Should the standard normal z distribution or Student s t distribution be used for this test The standard normal z distribution should be used The Student s t distribution should be used Determine the critical value s for this hypothesis test Round the solution s to two decimal places If more than one critical value exists enter the solutions using a comma separated list Determine the test statistic Round the solution to two decimal places Determine the appropriate conclusion for this hypothesis test The sample data provide sufficient evidence to reject the alternative hypothesis that the proportion of dentists who recommend this brand of toothpaste is significantly different than 0 9 and thus we conclude that the proportion of all dentists that recommend this brand of toothpaste is likely equal to 0 9 The sample data provide sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis that the proportion of all dentists that recommend this brand of toothpaste is 0 9 and thus we conclude that the proportion of dentists that recommend this brand of toothpaste is not equal to 0 9 The sample data do not provide sufficient evidence to reject the alternative hypothesis that the proportion of dentists who recommend this brand of toothpaste is significantly different than 0 9 and thus we conclude that the proportion of all dentists that recommend this brand of toothpaste is likely different than 0 9 The sample data do not provide sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis that the proportion of all dentists that recommend this brand of toothpaste is 0 9 and thus we conclude that the proportion of dentists that recommend this brand of toothpaste is likely equal to 09