To determine whether high blood pressure affected whether a person had a stroke, a sample of 300 people who have had strokes are examined. In the sample, 37% had high blood pressure. The p-value for the test that at least 33% of the people who have had strokes have had high blood pressure is 0.0694. If you were to test this hypothesis at the 10% level of significance, what can you conclude concerning the null hypothesis?

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To determine whether high blood pressure affected whether a person had a stroke, a sample of 300 people who have had strokes are examined. In the sample, 37% had high blood pressure. The p-value for the test that at least 33% of the people who have had strokes have had high blood pressure is 0.0694. If you were to test this hypothesis at the 10% level of significance, what can you conclude concerning the null hypothesis?

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