The Sales Records of Two Branches of a Department Store $\mu$

question 33

Essay

The sales records of two branches of a department store over the last 12 months are shown below.(Sales figures are in thousands of dollars. )We want to use the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test to determine if there is a significant difference in the sales of the two branches.

a.Compute the sum of the ranks (T)for branch A.
b.Compute the mean $\mu$ _T.
c.Compute $\sigma$ _T.
d..Use $\alpha$ = 0.05 and test to determine if there is a significant difference in the populations of the sales of the two branches.

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