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A new fad diet is claiming you can lose 10 lbs in 2 months. You enlist the help of volunteers who follow the diet. The volunteers report their weight loss after the two-month time period. You want to see if the dieters lost more than 10 lbs. Use an alpha value of 0.05.

The p-value for this test is 0.037. Would you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Why or why not?