Students in a discussion of gun control in a sociology class at Foothill Community College argue that Republicans are more likely to oppose gun control than Independents. They use data from an article titled "Gun Control Splits America," published March 23, 2010 in pewresarch.org by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. In this study 62% of Republicans and 57% of Independents say that states should not be able to pass laws banning handguns.

For a claim that a larger proportion of Republicans oppose state laws banning handguns when compared to Independents, the null and alternative hypotheses are

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