has recently been claimed that 25% of adults consider spring to be their favorite season of the year. A researcher is skeptical of this claim and believes this percentage to be too low. She surveys a random of 1000 adults and find that 390 of these adults consider spring to be their favorite season of the year. As she prepares to conduct a hypothesis test, the researcher writes out her alternative hypotheses as  P< 0.25 what is wrong with this?   The alternative hypothesis should be p<0.39 The alternative hypothesis should be p>0.39

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It has recently been claimed that 25% of adults consider spring to be their favorite season of the year. A researcher is skeptical of this claim and believes this percentage to be too low. She surveys a random of 1000 adults and find that 390 of these adults consider spring to be their favorite season of the year. As she prepares to conduct a hypothesis test, the researcher writes out her alternative hypotheses as  P< 0.25 what is wrong with this?

 

The alternative hypothesis should be p<0.39

The alternative hypothesis should be p>0.39

The alternative hypothesis should bep>0.25

The alternative hypothesis should bep=0.25

 

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