Last year, a comprehensive report stated that 28% of businesses in the northeast of Ohio were considered highly profitable. This year, based on a sample of 50 business owners, a survey your team conducted indicated that 19 businesses were highly profitable.
Would you conclude that the proportion of businesses that are highly profitable increased or decreased from last year with a statistical significance?
Use a statistical hypothesis test to determine this, using a 1% significance level.

So the p value obtained was a very high value and using the significance level given we have so we can conclude that we have enough evidence to FAIL to reject the null hypothesis, and we can said that at 5% of significance the proportion of businesses were highly profitable is not significantly different from 0.28 or 28%.

Step-by-step explanation:

Data given and notation

n=50 represent the random sample taken

X=19 represent the businesses were highly profitable

estimated proportion of businesses were highly profitable

is the value that we want to test

represent the significance level

Confidence=95% or 0.95

z would represent the statistic (variable of interest)

represent the p value (variable of interest)  

Concepts and formulas to use  

We need to conduct a hypothesis in order to test the claim that the true proportion of businesses were highly profitable is different from 0.28 or no, the system of hypothesis is.:  

Null hypothesis:  

Alternative hypothesis:  

When we conduct a proportion test we need to use the z statistic, and the is given by:  

(1)  

The One-Sample Proportion Test is used to assess whether a population proportion is significantly different from a hypothesized value .

Calculate the statistic  

Since we have all the info required we can replace in formula (1) like this:  

Statistical decision  

It's important to refresh the p value method or p value approach . "This method is about determining "likely" or "unlikely" by determining the probability assuming the null hypothesis were true of observing a more extreme test statistic in the direction of the alternative hypothesis than the one observed". Or in other words is just a method to have an statistical decision to fail to reject or reject the null hypothesis.  

The significance level provided . The next step would be calculate the p value for this test.  

Since is a bilateral test the p value would be:  

So the p value obtained was a very high value and using the significance level given we have so we can conclude that we have enough evidence to FAIL to reject the null hypothesis, and we can said that at 5% of significance the proportion of businesses were highly profitable is not significantly different from 0.28 or 28%.

i would have to say it is c.

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step-by-step explanation: