A Company Is Researching the Effectiveness of a New Website

question 8

Short Answer

A company is researching the effectiveness of a new website design to decrease the time to access a website. Five website users were randomly selected and their times (in seconds) to access the website with the old and new designs were recorded. The results follow. Let α = 0.05. Is the mean time to access the new website design shorter, or is (time for the old design - time for the new design) greater than zero? Express your answer in terms of the null hypothesis.

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