Solution

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The normalized density is
For against , the sample likelihood ratio is
It is strictly decreasing in . Under , parts (a) and (b) give
If is the lower -quantile of this gamma distribution, the Neyman-Pearson lemma gives the most powerful size- critical region
For any fixed ,
is again strictly decreasing in the same statistic . Thus the same critical region is most powerful against every and is consequently a uniformly most powerful test of against .

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