A researcher wants to study sports-watching behavior of young men. In a random s

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A researcher wants to study sports-watching behavior of young men. In a random sample of 18 young adult men 20-30 years old, each person was asked how many minutes of sports he watched on TV daily. The researcher wishes to test whether the mean amount of television watched daily by young men is greater than 50 minutes.

Which of the following is the correct specification of the alternative hypothesis?

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The researcher wishes to test whether the mean amount of television watched daily by young men is greater than 50 minutes.

Thus the correct specification of alternative hypothesis is:

H1:mu>50

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