A social worker in a certain city claimed that only 25% of the children between 19 and 35 months had not had all of their vaccines. You believe the percentage is higher. In order to test the social worker’s claim, you contact 145 families that have a child between 19 and 35 months and find that 44 of the children had not had all of their vaccines. Can the social worker’s claim be supported to a level of significance of α = .02, test the hypothesis.

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