A newsletter publisher believes that over 29 of their reader

A newsletter publisher believes that over 29% of their readers own a personal computer. For marketing purposes, a potential advertiser wants to confirm this claim. After performing a test at the 0.02 level of significance, the advertiser decides to reject the null hypothesis. What is the conclusion regarding the publisher\'s claim?

Solution

here,

H0: 29% of the reader own a personal computer

H1: the prportion of reader who own personal computer is not 29%.

H0 is rejected at 0.02 level of significance.

So, we can say that with a chance of error of 0.02 that the proportion of reader who owns personal computer is not 29% of the total readers.