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A quality control engineer at a potato chip company tests the bag filling machine by weighing bags of potato chips. Not every bag contains exactly the same weight. But if more than 15% of bags are over-filled then they stop production to fix the machine.
They define over-filled to be more than 1 ounce above the weight on the package. The engineer weighs 100 bags and finds that 31 of them are over-filled.
He plans to test the hypotheses: H0: p = 0.15 versus HA: p > 0.15 (where p is the true proportion of overfilled bags).
What is the test statistic?
ANSWER:
4.48
Good job! The sample proportion is about 4.48 standard errors above the p = 0.15.