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A newspaper article claims that the average age for people who receive food stamps is 40 years. You believe that theaverage age is less than that. You take a random sample of 100 people who receive food stamps, and find their averageage to be 39.2 years. You find that this is significantly lower than the age of 40 stated in the article (p<.05). What wouldbe an appropriate interpretation of this result?A. The statistically significant result indicates that the majority of people who receive food stamps is younger than40.B. Although the result is statistically significant, the difference in age is not of practical importance.C. An error must have been made. This difference is too small to be statistically significant.

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