Which of the items listed below describes the finding shown in the row titled Pearson Chi-Square and below the column titled Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) of the IBM SPSS Statistics software’s output when it reports a value of .000?
a. fail to reject the null hypothesis of independence
b. there is no evidence to support of the alternative hypothesis
c. the null hypothesis of independence is rejected.
d. the evidence in inconclusive—no decision can be made
