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A researcher is looking at the relationship between home-schooling and achievement. She is hypothesizing that the home-schooled children will score higher than non home-schooled children on a standardized achievement test.
a. What is the null hypothesis?
b. What is the alternative hypothesis? (Remember that every possibility must be covered between these two hypotheses).
c. Is this a one-tailed or a two-tailed test?
d. Write the alternative hypothesis so that it is a one-tailed test.
e. Write it as a two-tailed test.

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Null Hypothesis and one-tailed/two-tailed test
A researcher is looking at the relationship between home-schooling and achievement. She is hypothesizing that the home-schooled children will score higher than non home-schooled children on a standardized achievement test. 

a. What is the null hypothesis? 
H0: The mean score of home-schooled ...

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