Which type of t-test is appropriate to test the following hypothesis? H: The number of employees who commute to work is greater than ten.
A) Type I
B) Type II
C) one-tailed
D) two-tailed

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A one-tailed t-test would be appropriate for testing this hypothesis because we are only interested in whether the number of employees who commute to work is greater than ten (i.e., a one-tailed test in the direction of greater than). A two-tailed test would be more appropriate if we were testing a hypothesis that the number of employees who commute to work is not equal to ten.

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