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The null and alternative hypothesis for blood pressure are determined.

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This is an example of a hypothesis test for a population mean The significance level is 0.05.

Sample statistics:

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The null and alternative hypotheses:

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115

What the experimenter is trying to show or would like to discover goes in the alternative hypothesis.

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