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Bay Area community College collected Data and compared the starting salaries of the graduating students with last names beginning with the letters A thru M with those whose last names begin with N thru Z. A thru M provided 47 random responses and N thru Z had 52 random responses.

I have to figure out the null and research hypothesis.

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The solution is a brief statements of null and research hypotheses of a research in the Bay Area community College. The research compares the differences in salaries based on family names.

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You can state the null hypothesis as:

There is no significant difference between the starting salaries of the graduating students with last names beginning with the letters A thru M and those whose last names beginning with ...

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