Solution

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The Neyman-Pearson lemma says that for simple hypotheses with densities , a size- test that rejects where and accepts where , with possible randomization on equality to attain size , is most powerful among all tests of size at most . To prove it, let be this test and any competing test. Pointwise,
After integration,
which proves maximal power.
For the exponential sample, with ,
Since , this ratio is increasing in . The likelihood-ratio test therefore rejects for large :
where is the distribution function of the rate-parameterized Gamma distribution .

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