A loan officer wished to determine if the marital status of loan applicants was independent of the approval of loans. The following table presents the result of her survey:

a. Conduct the appropriate hypothesis test that will provide an answer to the loan officer. Use a significance level of 0.01.
b. Calculate the p -value for the hypothesis test in part a.

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Approved Rejected Single Married Divorced 213 374 358 189 231