Tulipan, Jeft Jerhielle D.

January 22, 2021

Grade 11-Riemann Statistics and Probability

Performance Task #2: Hypothesis Testing for One-Sample Proportion z-Test

Problem:
A study from a previous year found out that 60% of the Grade 10 students from a certain
high school are not satisfied with the food sold in their school canteen. A sample of 500 Grade
10 students are chosen and was found out that 275 of them are not satisfied with the food sold in
their canteen. Using 0.05 level of significance, test if there is enough evidence proving that there
is a change in the percentage of students who are not satisfied with the food sold at the school
canteen.

Sample Size Verification:

n=500
p=60%=0.6
q=1-p=1-(0.6)=0.4
np≥5 nq≥5
=500(0.6)≥5 =500(0.4)≥5
=300≥5 =200≥5

Step 1: State the null and alternative hypothesis

Null Hypothesis
Ho : p = 0.60
The percentage of students who are not satisfied with the food sold in the school canteen is 60%.

Alternative Hypothesis
Ha : p ≠ 0.60
The percentage of students who are not satisfied with the food sold in the school canteen is not
equal to 60%.
Step 2: Choose a level of significance
α=0.05
The level of significance to be used is 0.05.

Step 3: Compute the test statistic

275 p = 0.60
𝑝̂ = 500
q = 0.40
𝑝̂ = 0.55
n = 500
z-value formula: Solution:
𝑝̂−𝑝√𝑛 0.55−0.60√500
𝑧= 𝑧=
√𝑝𝑞 √0.60(0.40)

Answer:
𝑧 = −2.2822

Step 4: Determine the critical value

The nature of the curve is two-tailed or non-directional.
Using the Areas Under the Normal Curve Table and the 0.05 level of significance the critical
values are ±1.96.

Non-rejection
Rejection
Region
Region
Step 5: Make a decision
Since the absolute value of the computed z-value of -2.2822 falls on the rejection region, then the
null hypothesis is rejected at 0.05 level of significance.

Step 6: Draw conclusion

Therefore, we conclude that there is enough evidence to prove that the percentage of the students
who are not satisfied with the food sold at their school canteen is different from the previous
60%.