Spinning a coin, unlike tossing it, may not give heads and tails equal probabilities. I spun a penny 150 times and got 65 heads. We wish to find how significant is this evidence against equal probabilities.
a. What is the sample proportion of heads? Round to 3 places.
b. Heads do not make up half of the sample. Is this sample evidence that the probabilities of heads and tails are different?
Take p to be the probability of getting heads in a spin of a penny. Which hypotheses do we want to test?
- H0: p ≠ 0.5
- H0: p = 0.5
- H0: p = 0.5
- H0: p > 0.5
- H0: p = 0.5
- H0: p ≠ 0.5
- H0: p = 0.5
- H0: p < 0.5
c. Compute the z test statistic.
z =
Round to 2 places.