7. A 2024 headline in the New York Daily News stated “Major…
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7. A 2024 heаdline in the New Yоrk Dаily News stаted "Majоrity оf Catholics Support Abortion Rights." This headline was based on a 2023 study by Pew research which stated that more than 60% of adult American Catholics favored legal abortion. Spcifically 381 out of 624 randomly selected adult American Catholics said that they favored legal abortion. Conduct a test of hypothesis to determine if this data (381 out of 624) shows that the population proportion of adult American Catholics who favor legal abortion is more than 0.60. (While answering the following sub-parts of this question, you will be including the null and alternative hypothesis, the test statistic, the p-value (a visualization and an interpretation), your statistical decision, and your conclusion in the context of the problem.) (a) What type of hypothesis test is this (think Step 1)?