SOLUTION: 1. A poll of 400 people from Dobbs Ferry showed 250 preferred chocolate raspberry coffees while 170 out of 350 in Irvington preferred the same flavor. To test the hypothesis that

Question 183891: 1. A poll of 400 people from Dobbs Ferry showed 250 preferred chocolate raspberry coffees while 170 out of 350 in Irvington preferred the same flavor. To test the hypothesis that there is no difference in preferences in the two villages, what is the alternate hypothesis?
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Answer by tvandenberg(45) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The null hyopthesis is either an inequality or an equality. In this case we don't care which one is "better" just if they are NOT the same..
That said, the null hypothesis would be that they are equal so the alternate would be that there is a difference in preference between the two villages.
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