statistics

*This is not an actual hypothesis test, but it provides a good example of the consequences of making Type I and Type II errors.* To prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic, the Governor of Illinois has converted a Chicago convention center to an alternate care facility. Although the 500-bed facility is open and accepting patients, hospitals are not yet at capacity. Some have questioned whether creating this additional overflow space was necessary, as the state stay-at-home mandate is doing well at keeping down the number of infections. The Governor responded, "The consequences of being underprepared are the loss of life, whereas if we are overprepared then we have built out (hospital overflow capacity) more than needed." Assume that the null hypothesis is "The number of COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization is not greater than the number of beds available.. 21. What is the alternative hypothesis in words? 22. If you reject the null hypothesis, what will you conclude? Which type of error might you make? According to the Governor, what are the consequences of that error