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Formulate a numerical hypothesis of the statement issue.

Formulate a verbal hypothesis statement regarding your research issue.

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Verbal and numerical hypothesis
From the additional information attached:
a) Formulate a numerical hypothesis of the statement issue.
b) Formulate a verbal hypothesis statement regarding your research issue. The additional information is attached.

Overall what you have written regarding this is good. The only mistake I see is that you are using the sample mean in your statement of hypothesis. It is never correct to refer to the sample mean in a hypothesis statement. The hypothesis statement always compares population means.

It is true that we use the information in the sample mean to make decisions about population means. But the underlying question we want to answer is whether or not a population differs from a known value or whether or not there are differences among a set of population means. We can do this because if we assume the null hypothesis is true, we know the distribution of the ...

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