A researcher believes that the proportion of women who exercise with a friend is

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A researcher believes that the proportion of women who exercise with a friend is greater then the proportion of men. He takes a random sample from each proportion and records the response to the question,"have you exercised with a friend at least once in the last seven days?" The bulk hypothesis is ho:p women=p men. What is the correct alternative hypothesis? A researcher believes that the proportion of women who exercise with a friend is greater then the proportion of men. He takes a random sample from each proportion and records the response to the question,"have you exercised with a friend at least once in the last seven days?" The bulk hypothesis is ho:p women=p men. What is the correct alternative hypothesis?

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Here we need to check that proportion of women who exercise with a friend is greater then the proportion of men.

Now alternative hypothesis is always related to null hypothesis only

As here H0: p women = p men

We have to consider p women > p men; where p women indicates proportion of women who have exercised ith a friend at least once in the last seven days.

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