The HR Manager at Hernandez Inc

Multiple Choice

The HR manager at Hernandez Inc.reports that 40% of the company's job applicants have a bachelor's degree, 34% have an associate's degree and the remaining 26% have a high school diploma.You take a simple random sample of 200 applicants and find that 96 have a bachelor's degree, 70 have an associate's degree, and 34 have a high school diploma.You conduct a chi-square hypothesis test to establish whether this sample result is sufficient to reject a null hypothesis that the composition of Hernandez' job applicant population matches the HR manager's claim. Report the chi-square test statistic.

A) 6.88
B) 15.71
C) 4.23
D) 9.49