A new company is in the process of evaluating its customer service.The company offers two types of sales: (1)Internet sales and (2)store sales.The marketing research manager believes that the Internet sales are more than 10 percent higher than store sales.The alternative hypothesis for this problem would be stated as A) P_Internet − P_store 0. B) P_Internet − P_store .10.

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A new company is in the process of evaluating its customer service.The company offers two types of sales: (1)Internet sales and (2)store sales.The marketing research manager believes that the Internet sales are more than 10 percent higher than store sales.The alternative hypothesis for this problem would be stated as A) P_Internet − P_store > 0. B) P_Internet − P_store < 0. C) P_Internet − P_store ³ 0. D) P_Internet − P_store £ .10. E) P_Internet − P_store > .10.

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The alternative hypothesis should indicate that the Internet sales are higher than store sales. Choice E is the only one that meets this requirement and also explicitly states that the difference between the two types of sales is greater than 10%.

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