Math Problem Statement

Companies pay large amounts of money to make sure their Web sites are highly ranked on Google. Advanced Web Ranking reported that if your Web site is the very first search result on Google, desktop users will click on that result 34% of the time (this is called a click-through rate). Suppose that a certain company asks its Web manager to report the company's click-through rate. He conducts a random sample of 545 users and reports a click-through rate of 45%. Does this sample give the company reason to believe its results are working better than usual? Or could this just be a lucky result?

Solution

The image you've uploaded presents a hypothesis testing problem related to the click-through rate of a website. Based on the context and the provided data, the test is likely testing whether the observed sample proportion of 45% differs significantly from the reported population proportion of 34%.

Hypothesis setup:

  • The null hypothesis (H₀): The population click-through rate is 34% (p = 0.34).
  • The alternative hypothesis (H₁): The population click-through rate is not 34%, which would be denoted as p ≠ 0.34.

Given the choices in the image:

  • Correct answer for hypotheses: H₀: p = 0.34 and H₁: p ≠ 0.34 (Option B).

Z-test:

You are asked to calculate the z-statistic, which tests the difference between the sample proportion (0.45) and the null hypothesis proportion (0.34). The formula for the z-statistic is:

z=psamplepnullpnull(1pnull)nz = \frac{p_{\text{sample}} - p_{\text{null}}}{\sqrt{\frac{p_{\text{null}} (1 - p_{\text{null}})}{n}}}

Where:

  • psample=0.45p_{\text{sample}} = 0.45
  • pnull=0.34p_{\text{null}} = 0.34
  • n=545n = 545

Let's compute the z-statistic.

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Math Problem Analysis

Mathematical Concepts

Hypothesis Testing
Z-test
Proportions

Formulas

z = (p_sample - p_null) / sqrt(p_null * (1 - p_null) / n)

Theorems

Central Limit Theorem
Z-distribution

Suitable Grade Level

Grades 11-12