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The average life expectancy of tires produced by the Whitney Tire Company has been 40,000 miles.  Management believes that due to a new production process, the life expectancy of its tires has increased.  In order to test the validity of this belief, the correct alternative hypotheses is ___.Group of answer choicespopulation mean is greater than 40,000 milespopulation mean is greater than or equal to 40,000 milespopulation mean is less  than or equal to 40,000 milespopulation mean is less  than 40,000 miles

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The average life expectancy of tires produced by the Whitney Tire Company has been 40,000 miles.  Management believes that due to a new production process, the life expectancy of its tires has increased.  In order to test the validity of this belief, the correct alternative hypotheses is ___.Group of answer choicespopulation mean is greater than 40,000 milespopulation mean is greater than or equal to 40,000 milespopulation mean is less  than or equal to 40,000 milespopulation mean is less  than 40,000 miles

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The correct alternative hypothesis is "population mean is greater than 40,000 miles". This is because the management believes that the new production process has increased the life expectancy of its tires, which means they think the average life expectancy is now more than 40,000 miles.

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