1. Steve listens to his favorite streaming music service when he works out. He wonders whether the
service algorithm does a good job of finding random songs that he will like more often than not. To
test this, he listens to 50 songs chosen by the service at random and finds that he likes 32 of them.
Use Excel to test whether Steve will like a randomly selected song more than not and then draw a conclusion in the
context of a problem. Use α = 0.05.
Ho: p = ≤ 0.5(50%) p = 0.5
Ha: p = > 0.5 (strictly ¿>≠ )
P-value = 0.02 which is <α =0.05 we reject Ho and support the Ha
Hypothesis Test for p population
proportion
(decimal
Level of Significance 0.05 )
(decimal
Proportion under H0 0.5000 )
n 50
Number of
Successes 32
0.64000
Sample Proportion 0
0.50000
StDev 0
0.07071
SE 1
1.97989
Test Statistic (z) 9
0.02385
One-Sided p-value 2
0.04770
Two-Sided p-value 4
Right-Tailed (>) 1.644854
Left-Tailed (<) -1.644854
Two-Tailed (≠) ± 1.959964
Answer: Reject the null hypothesis. There is sufficient evidence to prove that Steve will like a random selected song
more often than not.
2. A magazine regularly tested products and gave the reviews to its customers. In one of its reviews, it
tested 2 types of batteries and claimed that the batteries from company A outperformed batteries
from company B in 108 of the tests. There were 200 tests. Company B decided to sue the magazine,
claiming that the results were not significantly different from 50% and that the magazine was
slandering its good name.