Instruction 19-6A As Part of an Evaluation Program,a Sporting Goods Retailer Wanted

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Instruction 19-6A
As part of an evaluation program,a sporting goods retailer wanted to compare the downhill coasting speeds of four brands of bicycles.She took three trials of each brand and determined their maximum downhill speeds.The results are presented in kilometres per hour in the table below.
-Referring to Instruction 19-6A,the calculation of the Kruskal-Wallis test statistic H involves ranking the observations.Construct a table containing these ranks.

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