Fifteen SmartCars Were Randomly Selected and the Highway Mileage of Each

question 56

Multiple Choice

Fifteen SmartCars were randomly selected and the highway mileage of each was noted. It was desired to determine if the median miles per gallon of all SmartCars exceeded 35 miles per gallon.
What type of nonparametric analysis should be used?

• A) The Sign Test
• B) The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
• C) The Kruskal-Wallis H-Test
• D) The Friedman \(\mathrm { F } _ { \mathrm { r } }\)-Test
• E) The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

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