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According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC),76 millionpeople in the US get diarrhea and upset stomachs each year. Most ofthese infections can be prevented by regularly washing one’s hands.A microbiologist believes that a majority (i.e. more than 50%) ofwomen wash their hands after using the bathroom. She collects asample of 40 women, calculates p, and performs a hypothesis test atalpha = 0.05.

(a) Give the hypotheses which the microbiologist wants totest.

(b) Describe a Type II error in terms of this problem.

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