Biologists, researching the effects of adding limestone sand as buffer for acid rain effects in streams, monitored the pH levels of two streams each month for 36 months. The first stream had a mean pH level of 6.8 with a standard deviation of 2.3. The control stream had a mean pH level of 9.2 with a standard deviation of 1.5. Use a .05 significance level for testing the claim that the mean pH of the first stream was less than the mean pH of the control stream. Assume the two samples are independent simple random samples selected from normally distributed populations. Do not assume that the population standard deviations are equal

a) Identify the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis