A Fund Manager Wants to Know If the Annual Rate

question 39

Multiple Choice

A fund manager wants to know if the annual rate of return is greater for growth stocks (sample 1) than for value stocks (sample 2) .The fund manager collects data on the returns of growth and value funds.Below are the sample sizes and rank sums for the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. At the 1% significance level,the critical value is _____.

• A) 1.645
• B) 1.96
• C) 2.33
• D) 2.575

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