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Last school year, the student body of a local university consisted of 30% freshmen, 24% sophomores, 26% juniors, and 20% seniors. A sample of 500 students taken from this year's student body showed the following number of students in each classification.
Freshmen | 125 |
Sophomores | 103 |
Juniors | 131 |
Seniors | 141 |
We are interested in determining whether or not there has been a significant change in the classifications between the last school year and this school year. The expected number of freshmen is
a. 120
b. 150
c. 125
d. 250
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