Suppose we want to test to see if a roulette wheel is balanced. The wheel is spun 100 time resulting in 58 red outcomes. Is this evidence that the roulette wheel is out of balance

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Solution :

Here, [tex]$ \hat p$[/tex] = sample proportion of red outcomes

[tex]$ \hat p =\frac{58}{100}$[/tex]

[tex]$ \hat p$[/tex] = 0.58

So we have to test,

[tex]$H_0 : p = 0.5$[/tex]

V/S    [tex]$H_a: p \neq 0.5 $[/tex]

The test statistic is

[tex]$z = \frac{\hat p - p}{\sqrt{\frac{p(1-p)}{n}}}$[/tex]

[tex]$z = \frac{0.58 - 0.5}{\sqrt{\frac{0.5(1-0.5)}{100}}}$[/tex]

  [tex]$=\frac{0.08}{0.05}$[/tex]

  = 1.600

P value using the z table is 0.110

So P value greater than 0.05

Therefore, there is no evidence that roulette wheel is out of balance.