Question

A statistics student hands each of 300 classmates 2 cookies side by side on a plate. Of the 300 students, 171 choose the cookie that’s on their right hand side, and the remaining 129 choose the cookie that’s on their left. The student says, “That’s just like tossing a coin.” The student’s friend says, “No, it’s not.” Help them settle their argument by performing a one-sample z test in Problems 7-9.

1) The P-value of the test is _____%. [Please be careful to enter your answer as a percent; that is, if your answer is 50% then please enter 50 in the blank; not 50%, nor 0.5, nor 1/2, etc.]

Answer 1

is it 1.54

Answer 2

it is not 1.54

Answer 3

it's 1.79, more or less