Voter Turnout. Minnesota had the highestturnout rate of any state for the 2016 presidential election.(United States Election Project website) Political analysts wonderif turnout in rural Minnesota was higher than turnout in the urbanareas of the state. A sample shows that 663 of 884 registeredvoters from rural Minnesota voted in the 2016 presidentialelection, while 414 out of 575 registered voters from urbanMinnesota voted.
- Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses that can be usedto test whether registered voters in rural Minnesota were morelikely than registered voters in urban Minnesota to vote in the2016 presidential election.
- What is the proportion of sampled registered voters in ruralMinnesota that voted in the 2016 presidential election?
- What is the proportion of sampled registered voters in urbanMinnesota that voted in the 2016 presidential election?
- At α = 0.05, test the political analysts' hypothesis. What isthe p-value and what conclusion do you draw from your results?
