Without doing any further work, comment on what conclusions you could draw if you conducted a test of the null hypothesis that the mean number of bacteria is the same at the source and at the outlet, versus the two-sided alternative.

The null hypothesis is incorrect.

Explanation:

The null hypothesis is incorrect because the average number of bacteria did not remain the same at the source and at the outlet. We know that bacteria reproduce in a very less time and they use reproduction methods such as binary and multiple fission so with the passage of time, the population of bacteria increases and did not remain the same at the source and at the outlet.

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