Quality control engineers are trying to improve the number of unpopped kernels in their company's microwave popcorn.Changes to the oil have recently been made,so the engineers are testing the hypothesis $H0\mathrm { H } _ { 0 }$ : ? = 25 against $HA\mathrm { H } _ { \mathrm { A } }$ : ? < 25.

A) Upper-tailed
B) Two-sided
C) Lower-tailed

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Quality control engineers are trying to improve the number of unpopped kernels in their company's microwave popcorn.Changes to the oil have recently been made,so the engineers are testing the hypothesis

H0\mathrm { H } _ { 0 }

: ? = 25 against

HA\mathrm { H } _ { \mathrm { A } }

: ? < 25.

A) Upper-tailed
B) Two-sided
C) Lower-tailed

Lemar Johnson · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : C, Explanation :  The engineers are testing to see if the mean number of unpopped kernels is less than 25. This is a one-sided or lower-tailed hypothesis since they are only interested in whether the number of unpopped kernels has decreased. Therefore, the best choice is C) Lower-tailed.

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