A Candidate for State Representative of a Certain State Claims $\mathrm { p } \geq 0.5$

Multiple Choice

A candidate for state representative of a certain state claims to be favored by at least half of the voters. If ahypothesis test is performed, how should you interpret a decision that fails to reject the null hypothesis?

A) There is not sufficient evidence to reject the claim $\mathrm { p } \geq 0.5$ .
B) There is sufficient evidence to reject the claim $p \geq 0.5$ .
C) There is sufficient evidence to support the claim $p \geq 0.5$ .
D) There is not sufficient evidence to support the claim $p \geq 0.5$ . 10.2 Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion1 Explain the logic of hypothesis testing.