In each of the following situations, is the alternative hypothesis one-sided or two-sided? What are the hypotheses?

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In each of the following situations, is the alternative hypothesis one-sided or two-sided? What are the hypotheses?
a) A college dining service conducts a survey to see if students prefer plastic or metal cutlery.
b) In recent years, 10% of college juniors have applied for study abroad. The dean's office conducts a survey to see if that's changed this year.
c) A pharmaceutical company conducts a clinical trial to see if more patients who take a new drug experience headache relief than the 22% who claimed relief after taking the placebo.
d) At a small computer peripherals company, only 60% of the hard drives produced passed all their performance tests the first time. Management recently invested a lot of resources into the production system and now conducts a test to see if it helped.
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Stats Data and Models

ISBN: 978-0321986498

4th edition

Authors: Richard D. De Veaux, Paul D. Velleman, David E. Bock

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