Classify the hypothesis test as two-tailed, left-tailed, or right-tailed. At one school, the average amount of time that tenth-graders spend watching television each week is  20.2  hours. The principal introduces a campaign to encourage the students to watch less television. One year later, the principal wants to perform a hypothesis test to determine whether the average amount of time spent watching television per week has decreased from the previous mean of  20.2  hours.

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Classify the hypothesis test as two-tailed, left-tailed, or right-tailed.

At one school, the average amount of time that tenth-graders spend watching television each week is 

20.2

 hours. The principal introduces a campaign to encourage the students to watch less television. One year later, the principal wants to perform a hypothesis test to determine whether the average amount of time spent watching television per week has decreased from the previous mean of 

20.2

 hours.

 
 
Left-tailed
 
 
Right-tailed
 
 
Two-tailed
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