For Exercises 4–6, do the following.

  1. Provide the null and alternative hypotheses.
  2. Describe the two ways a correct decision could be made.
  3. Describe what a Type I error would mean in the context of the problem.
  4. Describe what a Type II error would mean in the context of the problem.

Question 9.391

6. Salaries of Accounting Associate Professors. Salary.com reports that the mean salary for accounting associate professors in 2014 was $94,000. A hypothesis test was conducted to determine if the population mean salary of accounting associate professors has increased.