Last school year, the student body of a local university consisted of 30% freshmen, 24% sophomores,...

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Last school year, the student body of a local university consisted of 30% freshmen, 24% sophomores, 26% juniors, and 20% seniors. A sample of 300 students taken from this year student body showed the following number of students in each classification. Freshmen Sophomores Juniors Seniors 83 68 85 64 We are interested in determining whether or not there has been a significant change in the classifications between the last school year and this school year. (a) State the null and the alternative hypotheses. (b) Compute the test statistic. (c) Using the p-value approach, what is your conclusion? Let a = .05. Last school year, the student body of a local university consisted of 30% freshmen, 24% sophomores, 26% juniors, and 20% seniors. A sample of 300 students taken from this year student body showed the following number of students in each classification. Freshmen Sophomores Juniors Seniors 83 68 85 64 We are interested in determining whether or not there has been a significant change in the classifications between the last school year and this school year. (a) State the null and the alternative hypotheses. (b) Compute the test statistic. (c) Using the p-value approach, what is your conclusion? Let a = .05.