Census data for a city indicate that 24% of the under-18 population is white, 29.5% black, 34.9% Latino, 9.9% Asian, and 1.7% other ethnicities. The city points out that of 25,379 police officers, 64.8% are white,14.5% black,19.1% Latino, 1.4% Asian, and the remaining are other ethnicities. Do the police officers reflect the ethnic composition of the city's youth?

H₀: The distribution of ethnicities in the police department represents the distribution of ethnicities of the city's youth.

H_A: The distribution of ethnicities in the police department does not represent the distribution of ethnicities of the city's youth.

A) Test an appropriate hypothesis and state your results. Assume α=0.05. What is the test statistic?

B) What is the P value?

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