Beth Has Designed a Study to Examine Whether a New

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Beth has designed a study to examine whether a new method of learning historical facts will improve the ability of sixth-grade students to recall such facts.The assumption that there will be no difference in the recall ability of a group of sixth graders who use the new method,and those who do not,is the

• A) alternative hypothesis.
• B) null hypothesis.
• C) inferential hypothesis.
• D) research hypothesis.

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