SOLUTION: Set up the null and alternative hypothesis for the following problem. A survey reported the planning habits of men and women. The question asked, "how do you primarily keep track

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Question 777272: Set up the null and alternative hypothesis for the following problem.
A survey reported the planning habits of men and women. The question asked, "how do you primarily keep track of meetings, appointments and deadlines?" 56% of men and 46% of women answered, "in my head."
Let p1 = proportion of men who prefer keeping track of appointments in their heads and p2 = proportion of women who prefer keeping track of appointments in their heads.
Only need-
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Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Set up the null and alternative hypothesis for the following problem.
A survey reported the planning habits of men and women. The question asked, "how do you primarily keep track of meetings, appointments and deadlines?" 56% of men and 46% of women answered, "in my head."
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Let p1 = proportion of men who prefer keeping track of appointments in their heads
and p2 = proportion of women who prefer keeping track of appointments in their heads.
Only need-
Ho:: p1-p2 = 0
Ha:: p1-p2 # 0
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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