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A manufacturer supplies fuses, approximately $90 \%$ of which function properly. A new process is initiated whose purpose is to increase the proportion of properly functioning fuses. We obtain a random sample of 100 such fuses manufactured by the new process and found out that 8 of them are not functioning properly. Let $p$ denotes the proportion of properly functioning fuses. (Use normal approximation to binomial)

For a right-tailed test:

\[
\begin{array}{ll}
\text{Significance level } (\alpha) & \text{Critical z-value } (z_{a}) \\
\hline
0.10 & 1.28 \\
0.05 & 1.645 \\
\end{array}
\]

Choose the correct options from the following:

  1. Accept $H_0$ at a significance level of $0.05$.
     
  2. Reject $H_0$ at a significance level of $0.10$.
     
  3. Accept $H_0$ at a significance level of $0.10$.
     
  4. Reject $H_0$ at a significance level of $0.05$.

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We are dealing with proportions, so the data follows a binomial distribution:

$$
X \sim \operatorname{Binomial}(n, p)
$$

where

  • $n=100$ (number of fuses tested),
     
  • $p=$ true proportion of functioning fuses.

From binomial theory:

$$
E[\hat{p}]=p \quad \text { and } \quad \operatorname{Var}(\hat{p})=\frac{p(1-p)}{n}
$$


When $n$ is large (say $n p>5$ and $n(1-p)>5$ ), the sampling distribution of $\hat{p}$ can be approximated by a normal distribution:

$$
\hat{p} \sim N\left(p, \frac{p(1-p)}{n}\right)
$$


The general $z$-formula is:

$$
\begin{aligned}
& z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma / \sqrt{n}} \\
& z=\frac{\hat{p}-p_0}{\sqrt{\frac{p_0\left(1-p_0\right)}{n}}}
\end{aligned}
$$

$$
\begin{aligned}
& p_0\left(1-p_0\right)=0.9(0.1)=0.09 \\
& \frac{0.09}{n}=\frac{0.09}{100}=0.0009 \\
& \sqrt{0.0009}=0.03 \\
& \hat{p}-p_0=0.92-0.90=0.02 \\
& z=\frac{0.02}{0.03}=0.67 \\
& 0.67<1.28 \text { (for } \alpha=0.10) \rightarrow \text { Fail to reject } H_0 \\
& 0.67<1.645 \text { (for } \alpha=0.05 \text { ) } \rightarrow \text { Fail to reject } H_0
\end{aligned}
$$


Hence, A and C are correct

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