Maxwell Cantor, VP of Human Resources of Asimov Aerospace Industries $\mu$

Maxwell Cantor, VP of human resources of Asimov Aerospace Industries Inc., is reviewing the technical certifications of employees in different divisions of the company. His goal is having 90% of technical employees with up-to-date certifications. The north-east division typically has maintained higher rates of up-to-date certifications than the southern division. He selects a random sample of 250 employees from the north-east division and 300 from the southern division and finds out that the number of employees with up-to-date certifications are 230 in the north-east division and 265 in the southern division. Maxwell's alternative hypothesis is ___.

A) $\mu$ ₁ - $\mu$ ₂ = 0
B) π₁ - π₂ ≥ 0
C) $\mu$ ₁ - $\mu$ ₂ ≤ 0
D) $\mu$ ₁ - $\mu$ ₂ ≥ 0
E) π₁ - π₂ = 0