Question

Golf course designer Roberto Langabeer is evaluating two sites, Palmetto Dunes and Ocean Greens, for his next golf course. He wants to prove that Palmetto Dunes residents (population 1) play golf more often than Ocean Greens residents (population 2). Roberto plans to test this hypothesis using a random sample of 81 individuals from each suburb.
His alternative hypothesis is __________.

Answer 1

Let be the population mean for the number of times Palmetto Dunes residents play golf in a year

Let be the population mean for the number of times Ocean Greens residents play golf in a year

The null hypothesis is

Ho :                (that is Palmetto Dunes play golf less often than Ocean Greens)

Then the alternative hypothesis is

     (that is Palmetto Dunes play golf more often than Ocean Greens)