THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

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THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
An airline is considering changing the color scheme of its planes' interiors.A focus group of 220 people was asked which color scheme they preferred.Of those who expressed a preference,87 preferred the new color scheme,while 121 preferred the old.
-The introduction of the new blue M&M has been received very well.In fact,the brand manager for M&M wants to add a color and is trying to decide which color to add.The manager asks a group of 12 life-long consumers of M&Ms to rank these colors on a scale of 1 to 10.The data is presented below:
Consumers of M&Ms

Using the Wilcoxon signed rank test,is there evidence that consumers' rankings were higher for one color or the other? State any assumptions needed to answer this question.

Understand the structure of arguments and identify conclusions within them.

Recognize and analyze syllogistic steps in an argument.

Determine the validity of arguments based on their structure and logical steps.

Differentiate between explicit and implicit propositions within an argument.

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Definitions:

West Virginian Counties

Administrative subdivisions of the state of West Virginia, in the United States, each with its own local government.

Incidental Learning

Learning without trying to learn, and often without awareness that learning is occurring.

Intentional Learning

Placing new information into memory in anticipation of being tested on it later.

Procedural Learning

Procedural learning is the acquisition of skills and habits through practice, typically without conscious recollection of the learning process.