The mayor of a town has proposed a plan for the annexation of a new bridge. A political study took a sample of 1100 voters in the town and found that 54% of the residents favored annexation. Using the data, a political strategist wants to test the claim that the percentage of residents who favor annexation is more than 50%. Determine the P-value of the test statistic. Round your answer to four decimal places.

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Answer:

The p-value is  [tex]p-value = 0.0039854[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that

   The sample size is  n = 1100

   The population proportion is  p = 0.50

  The sample proportion is  [tex]\^ p = 0.54[/tex]

The null hypothesis is  [tex]H_o : p = 0.50[/tex]

The alternative hypothesis is [tex]H_a : p > 0.50[/tex]

 Generally the test statistics is mathematically represented as

     [tex]z = \frac{\^ p - p }{ \sqrt{\frac{ p(1 - p)}{n} } }[/tex]

=>   [tex]z = \frac{ 0.54 - 0.54 }{ \sqrt{\frac{ 0.50 (1 - 0.50)}{1100} } }[/tex]

=>  [tex]z = 2.6533[/tex]

Generally from the z-table the probability of 2.6533 for a right tailed test is  

         [tex]p-value = 0.0039854[/tex]