Question: A student claims that he can correctly identify whether a person is a business major or a computer sciencemajor by the way the person dresses.

A student claims that he can correctly identify whether a person is a business major or a computer sciencemajor by the way the person dresses. Suppose in actuality that if someone is a business major, he can correctly identify that person as a business major 87% of the time. When a person is a computer sciencemajor, the student will incorrectly identify that person as a business major 16% of the time. Presented with one person and asked to identify the major of this person (who is either a business or a computer sciencemajor), he considers this to be a hypothesis test with the null hypothesis being that the person is a business major and the alternative that the person is a computer sciencemajor.

In this situation,what is the "actual level of significance" of the test?

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