Hypothesis testing-testing for proportions

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Joe thinks that no more than 20% of students in his Statistics class will get an A in the final examination. To prove his claim, he takes a random sample of 35 students and finds to his surprise that 30% of students got an A. At a 0.01 percent level of significance can we reject Joe's claim?

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