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A decade-old study found that the proportion of high school seniors who felt that "getting rich" was an important personal goal was 67%. Suppose that we have reason to believe that this proportion has changed, and we wish to carry out a hypothesis test to see if our belief can be supported. State the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1 that we would use for this test.

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This solution determines the null and alternative hypothesis for the decade-old study on high school seniors.

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