Maureen McIlvoy, owner and CEO of a mail order business for wind surfing equipment and supplies, is reviewing the order filling

Response:

Maureen's null hypothesis is, H₀: p₁ ≥ p₂.

Detailed explanation:

Maureen McIlvoy, as the owner and CEO of a mail-order business specializing in windsurfing gear, is scrutinizing the order fulfillment processes in her warehouses. Her objective is to achieve a 100% shipment rate of orders within 24 hours. Upon examining her warehouse operations, she discovers that both the East coast and West coast warehouses have not met this goal, although the East Coast warehouse has consistently outperformed its counterpart.

To verify this finding, Maureen’s team randomly sampled 200 orders from the West Coast warehouse (population 1) and 400 from the East Coast warehouse (population 2).

Of the sampled 200 orders from the West Coast warehouse, 190 were delivered within the specified time. In contrast, 372 out of 400 orders from the East Coast warehouse were processed within 24 hours.

The hypotheses can be formulated as followed:

H₀: The proportion of timely shipments from the East Coast does not exceed that from the West Coast warehouse, thus, p₁ ≥ p₂.

Hₐ: The proportion of timely shipments from the East Coast warehouse is indeed greater than that from the West Coast warehouse, stated as p₁ < p₂.

Thus, Maureen's null hypothesis becomes, H₀: p₁ ≥ p₂.