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The following two hypotheses are tested:Ho: The proportion of U.S. adults who oppose same-sex marriage is roughly 50%.Ha: The proportion of U.S. adults who oppose same-sex marriage is above 50% (i.e., the majority oppose).Suppose a survey was conducted in which a random sample of 1,100 U.S. adults was asked about their opinions about same-sex marriage, and based on the data, the p-value was found to be .002.Use a .05 (5%) significance level.The fact that the p-value = .002 means that

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The following two hypotheses are tested:Ho: The proportion of U.S. adults who oppose same-sex marriage is roughly 50%.Ha: The proportion of U.S. adults who oppose same-sex marriage is above 50% (i.e., the majority oppose).Suppose a survey was conducted in which a random sample of 1,100 U.S. adults was asked about their opinions about same-sex marriage, and based on the data, the p-value was found to be .002.Use a .05 (5%) significance level.The fact that the p-value = .002 means that

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The p-value of .002 is less than the significance level of .05. This means that we reject the null hypothesis (Ho) that the proportion of U.S. adults who oppose same-sex marriage is roughly 50%. Instead, we have enough evidence to support the alternative hypothesis (Ha) that the proportion of U.S. adults who oppose same-sex marriage is above 50%. In other words, the data suggests that the majority of U.S. adults oppose same-sex marriage.

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