The General Electric Service Department Believes That the Median Time

question 13

Multiple Choice

The General Electric service department believes that the median time for a service call should be 30 or fewer minutes. To test this, the following random sample of service times was collected: Given that the managers do not wish to make the assumption that the population is normally distributed, the test statistic for the Wilcoxon signed rank sum test is:

• A) W = 43.0
• B) W = 27.0
• C) W = 18.0
• D) None of the above

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