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A market researcher's claim is that women spend more time each day on Facebook than men. If p1 represents the proportion of women on Facebook and p2 represents the proportion of men on Facebook, how would the researcher's claim be represented?
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p1 = p2
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p1 > p2
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p1 < p2
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