The rejection region in a hypothesis test:
A)is an area in the tail(s) of a sampling distribution.
B)is a consensus formed by trained statisticians.
C)is always set to correspond to α = .05 in the test.
D)is always equal to the p-value in the test.

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The rejection region is an area in the tail(s) of a sampling distribution where we reject the null hypothesis if our test statistic falls there. It is determined by the level of significance (α) chosen for the test.

The Rejection Region in a Hypothesis Test