A new company is in the process of evaluating its customer service.The company offers two types of sales: 1.Internet sales;2.Store sales.The marketing research manager believes that the Internet sales are more than 10% 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;2.Store sales.The marketing research manager believes that the Internet sales are more than 10% 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 ≥ 0 D)P_internet - P_store ≤ .10 E)P_internet - P_store > .10

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The hypothesis should suggest that the difference between the Internet sales and store sales is more than 10%. Therefore, the best choice is E, which states that P_internet - P_store > .10.

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