THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

question 156

Essay

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
In testing the hypotheses
H₀ : The two population locations are the same
H₁ : The two population locations are different,the following statistics were
calculated: n = 40,T₊ = 245,and T_- = 575 with data drawn from a matched pairs experiment.
-Can we infer at the 5% significance level that the population locations differ?

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