According to the Bureau of the Census, the U.S. population includes 37.7 million persons who were born in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, or in another area outside the United States. A percentage breakdown of the regions of birth is shown here. If a random sample of 300 foreign-born persons were to be selected from a major U.S. city, with the observed frequencies shown in the rightmost column of the table, could we conclude that the distribution of birth regions for the foreign-born persons in this city could be the same as the national-level distribution in the adjacent column? Use the 0.05 level of significance in reaching a conclusion.

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National-Level Percentage Number of Persons in Sample Birth Region 11.8% 26.3 Europe Asia Caribbean Central America South America Other 38.9 6.8 7.1 100.0 43 87 30 102 25 13 300