Appropriate kind of hypothesis test

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An organization conducts a poll to determin the support the health care bill that just passed. In a random sample of 1000 adults surveyed, 498 responded "yes". We would like to test if the proportion of respondents that support the health care bill is less than 50%

a. what kind of hypothesis test is appropriate?

b. find the correct alternative hypothesis

c. find the calculated test value & p-values

d. find the correct conclusion @ 0.01 level of significance

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