A quality control engineer at a potato chip company tests the bag filling machine by weighing bags of potato chips. Not every bag contains exactly the same weight. But if more than 15% of bags are over-filled then they stop production to fix the machine. They define over-filled to be more than 1 ounce above the weight on the package. The engineer weighs 100 bags and finds that 21 of them are over-filled. He plans to test the hypotheses H 0: p = 0.15 versus H a : p > 0.15. What is the test statistic?

Step-by-step explanation:

Information provided

n=100 represent the random sample taken

X=21 represent the number of bags overfilled

estimated proportion of overfilled bags

is the value that we want to test

z would represent the statistic

Hypothesis

We need to conduct a hypothesis in order to test if the true proportion of overfilled bags is higher than 0.15.:  

Null hypothesis:  

Alternative hypothesis:  

The statistic for this case is:

(1)  

And replacing the info given we got:

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