A building inspector believes that the percentage of new construction with serious code violations may be even greater than the previously claimed 7%. She conducts a hypothesis test on 200 new homes and finds 23 with serious code violations. Is this strong evidence against the .07 claim?

The inspector's claim has strong statistical evidence.

Step-by-step explanation:

To answer this we have to perform a hypothesis test.

The inspector claimed that the actual proportion of code violations is greater than 0.07, so the null and alternative hypothesis are:

We assume a significance level of 0.05.

The sample size is 200 and the proportion of the sample is:

The standard deviation is

The z-value can be calculated as

The P-value for this z-value is P=0.00914.

This P-value is smaller than the significance level, so the effect is significant and the null hypothesis is rejected.

The inspector's claim has strong statistical evidence.

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