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You volunteer for a dog rescue organization and have heard that dark-colored dogs take longer to adopt than light colored dogs. you know that the average number of days a dog takes get adopted in your shelter is 22. you decide to randomly sample records for the shelter's dark-haired dogs for the past year to test whether dark-haired dogs have an average stay that is longer than this population mean.

1. What are you null and alternative (research) hypotheses?
2. In this context, what would a Type I error be? Describe the error in a sentence using the context of the example.
3. In this context, what would a Type II error be? Describe the error in a sentence using the context of the example.
4. Which error type is a more egregious violation for a researcher?