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A social service organization reports that the level of educational attainment of mothers receiving food stamps is uniformly distributed. To test this claim, you randomly select 104 mothers who currently receive food stamps and record the educational Response Frequency, / attainment of each. The results are shown in the table on Not a high school graduate 36 the right. At a = 0.025, can you reject the claim that the distribution is High school graduate 40 uniform? Complete parts (a) through (d) below. College (1 year or more) 28 (a) State Ho and He and identify the claim. Ho: The distribution of educational attainment responses is He: The distribution of educational attainment responses is Which hypothesis is the claim? O Ho (b) Determine the critical value, Xo , and the rejection region. Xo = (Round to three decimal places as needed.) Choose the correct rejection region below. OA. X 2XO OB. X XO (c) Calculate the test statistic. x =(Round to three decimal places as needed.) (d) Decide whether to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis. Then interpret the decision in the context of the original claim.' V Ho. At a 2.5% significance level, there enough evidence to reject the claim that the distribution of educational attainment responses uniform