Answer to Question #7002 in Statistics and Probability for edward romero

Question

You have the following information.

In 1980, 5.2% of the U.S. prison population was on death row. In 2010, in a survey of 100 of the largest U.S. prisons, the percent of inmates on death row was 6.2% (sd=2.45).

Create and test your hypothesis.

(a) state your research and null hypotheses
(b) select the proper test (1- or 2-tailed) and an appropriate alpha level
(c) conduct the test
(d) in two or three sentences, summarize your test and findings