All of these are answered from the same basic principle. The p-value, in essence, gives the probability that the sample mean you obtained occurred by chance assuming that the null hypothesis is correct.
A small p-value indicates that getting such a sample is unlikely.
We compare the p-value to alpha , which is our confidence level. alpha is the likelihood of committing a Type I error -- rejecting a true null hypothesis. If the p-value is less than alpha we are provided evidence that the sample obtained would not have happened by chance and thus we should reject the null hypothesis.
Given alpha=.05:
(a) If .03
.05
(b) Sure. Since p>.05 we would not reject the null-hypothesis.
(c) No. The p-value is a probability and thus 0<=p<=1
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