Using Either the Critical Value Rule or the P-Value Rule

question 122

Multiple Choice

Using either the critical value rule or the p-value rule, if a one-sided null hypothesis is rejected at a given significance level, then the corresponding two-sided null hypothesis (i.e., the same sample size, the same standard deviation, and the same mean) will ________ be rejected at the same significance level.

• A) always
• B) sometimes
• C) never

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