Question

Lucy baker is analyzing demographic characteristics of two television programs: cops (population 1) and 60 minutes (population 2). previous studies indicate no difference in the ages of the two audiences. (the mean age of each audience is the same.) lucy plans to test this hypothesis using a random sample of 100 from each audience. her alternate hypothesis is:

Answer 1

The confirmed hypotheses from previous studies have said there is no significant difference between the two audiences in terms of age. The alternate hypothesis is that there is in fact an age difference between the two demographics (population 1 and population 2).