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A researcher wanted to examine the hypothesis that the proportion of obese individuals among those without diabetes exceeds 35%. To investigate this, she gathered a random sample of 1000 diabetes-free individuals and determined that 360 of them are obese.
i. State the hypothesis statements.
ii. Perform the hypothesis test. What can she conclude at a significance level of a = 0.05?
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