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Test the claim that the proportion of people who own cats is larger than 30% at the 0.05 significance level.
The null and alternative hypothesis would be:
Based on a sample of 200 people, 32% owned cats
The test statistic is: (to 2 decimals)
The p-value is: (to 2 decimals)
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