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How do you set up hypotheses for the following situations:

a. Jill is interested in comparing academic preparedness of high school seniors in
Utah. She thinks that the ACT is a good measure of how prepared these students
are for college and she wants to know if boys are more prepared than girls for
success in college.

b. Is it true that men in Utah are more prone to prostate cancer than men in
Vermont?

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This solution explains how to set up a hypothesis for an experiment, given two sample scenarios.

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(a). Jill is interested in comparing academic preparedness for high school seniors in
Utah. She thinks that the ACT is a good measure of how prepared these students
are for college and she wants to know if boys are more prepared than girls for
success in college.

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