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The graduation rate from high school in a certain county is 76%. A school in that county wants to know if its graduation rate is significantly lower than the county rate. They take a random sample of 300 of the seniors who graduated last year, and find that 223 out of those 300 graduated.
What set of hypotheses should be tested in this case?
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