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Claim: A minority of adults would erase all of their personal information online if they could. A software firm survey of 664 randomly selected adults showed that $45 \%$ of them would erase all of their personal information online if they could. Complete parts (a) and (b) below.
b. Identify the null and alternative hypotheses.

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The null hypothesis is that the proportion of adults who would erase all of their personal information online if they could is equal to 0.5 (or 50%). The alternative hypothesis is that the proportion of adults who would erase all of their personal information online if they could is less than 0.5 (or 50%).

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Step 1 :The null hypothesis is that the proportion of adults who would erase all of their personal information online if they could is equal to 0.5 (or 50%). The alternative hypothesis is that the proportion of adults who would erase all of their personal information online if they could is less than 0.5 (or 50%).

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