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. If the HR manager's claim is true, what is the expected number of applicant's in the sample who have a bachelor's degree?
A)80
B)120
C)40
D)60

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If 40% of the company's job applicants have a bachelor's degree and you take a sample of 200 applicants, the expected number of applicants with a bachelor's degree is 40% of 200, which is 0.40 * 200 = 80.

The HR Manager at Hernandez Inc