The HR manager at Hernandez Inc.reports that 40% of the company's job applicants have a bachelor's degree, 34% have an associate's degree and the remaining 26% have a high school diploma.You take a simple random sample of 200 applicants and count the number in the sample with bachelor's degrees, associate's degrees, and high school diplomas.You then conduct a chi-square hypothesis test to establish whether this sample result is sufficient to reject a null hypothesis that the composition of Hernandez' job applicant population matches the HR manager's claim.The significance level is 1%. If the p-value turns out to be .028, what should you conclude?
A)Don't reject the HR manager's claim.
B)Reject the HR manager's claim.
C)The sample provides strong evidence that the HR manager's claim is true.
D)The sample provides strong evidence that the HR manager's claim is not true.

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Since the p-value (.028) is greater than the significance level (1% or .01), we fail to reject the null hypothesis. This means there isn't enough evidence to conclude that the composition of the job applicant population is different from the HR manager's claim.

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