A Student at a Midwest College Is Interested in Whether

question 170

Multiple Choice

A student at a Midwest college is interested in whether Psychology majors spend more or less time studying than English majors. She randomly selects 8 Psychology majors and 8 English majors and determines their weekly studying time. The following are the scores. Note one person dropped out of the study. An analysis is being conducted using the Mann-Whitney U test. If a = 0.05 2 tail, U crit = _________.

• A) 7
• B) 10
• C) 46
• D) 49

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