Suppose that 10% of the fields in a given agricultural area are infested with the sweet potato whitefly. One hundred fields in this area are randomly selected, and 25 are found to be infested with whitefly.
a. Assuming that the experiment satisfies the conditions of the binomial experiment, do the data indicate that the proportion of infested fields is greater than expected? Use the p-value approach, and test using a 5% significance level.
b. If the proportion of infested fields is found to be significantly greater than .10, why is this of practical significance to the agronomist? What practical conclusions might she draw from the results?