For Exercises follow these steps.

a. State the hypotheses and identify the claim.
b. Find the critical value.
c. Compute the test value.
d. Make the decision.
e. Summarize the results.
Use the traditional method of hypothesis testing unless otherwise specified.

A survey of why randomly selected people lost their jobs produced the following results. At α = 0.05, test the claim that the number of responses is equally distributed. Do you think the results might be different if the study were done 10 years ago?

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Reason Number Company closing 26 Position abolished 18 Insufficient work 28