An Environmental Science Teacher at a High School with a Large

Multiple Choice

An environmental science teacher at a high school with a large population of students was curious whether the majority (more than half) of students at the school regularly recycle plastic bottles. The teacher selected a random sample of 146 students at the school to interview, then asked each student: "Do you recycle plastic bottles more often than you throw them in the trash?" (Yes/No) . Suppose that 89 of the students answered "Yes".
-We want to know if the proportion of students at the school that would have said "Yes" differed from 0.5 rather than was greater than 0.5.

A) Stronger evidence against the null hypothesis
B) Weaker evidence against the null hypothesis
C) The same amount of evidence against the null hypothesis
D) Cannot be determined from the information given