State standards mandate that 90% of municipal officers responding to emergency calls will reach their destination within 5 minutes.  To test this, you randomly sample 115 emergency calls to your department, and you find that out of those 115 calls, 90 officers get where they need to go within 5 minutes.  What hypothesis test would you use to test whether your officers meet state standards?  (Don't compute the result, but just choose the appropriate hypothesis test and briefly explain the reasoning for your choice)

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State standards mandate that 90% of municipal officers responding to emergency calls will reach their destination within 5 minutes.  To test this, you randomly sample 115 emergency calls to your department, and you find that out of those 115 calls, 90 officers get where they need to go within 5 minutes.  What hypothesis test would you use to test whether your officers meet state standards? 

(Don't compute the result, but just choose the appropriate hypothesis test and briefly explain the reasoning for your choice) 

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