1. Based on the claim presented by your peer, state the null and alternative hypothesis and process you would take to determine if you would Reject or Fail to Reject Ho.
2. Based on the data and history presented by your peer, state a new claim and explain why you think your claim is valid.

The info below is the peer I have to respond to with the instructions above

Based on the trends and history of the data, I would claim that the average number of murders and manslaughters for 20 years between 1997 and 2016 is on average 16,000. The number of years that had a greater number of murders and manslaughters is 50%. A right-tailed test would be completed to find this information since I am looking for values greater than the mean.

To figure out whether this hypothesis is true, I would need to know, the mean, the hypothesized mean, the number of values, the standard deviation, the level of significance, the test statistic, and the p-value

I would then need to analyze and conclude whether the hypothesis is true based on the p-value.If the p-value is greater than .50 then I fail to reject the hypothesis. If it is less than .50 I would reject it.

Year

# of Murders/Manslaughter

1997 18,208

1998 16,974

1999 15,522

2000 15,586

2001 16,037

2002 16,229

2003 16,528

2004 16,148

2005 16,740

2006 17,309

2007 17,128

2008 16,465

2009 15,399

2010 14,722

2011 14,661

2012 14,856

2013 14,319

2014 14,164

2015 15,883

2016 17,250