OCR S4 2014 June — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2014
SessionJune
TopicWilcoxon tests

1 A teacher believes that the calculator paper in a GCSE Mathematics examination was easier than the non-calculator paper. The marks of a random sample of ten students are shown in the table.
StudentABCDEFGHIJ
Mark on paper 1 (non-calculator)66795887675575625084
Mark on paper 2 (calculator)57847090754282726582
  1. Use a Wilcoxon signed-rank test, at the \(5 \%\) significance level, to test the teacher's belief.
  2. State the assumption necessary for this test to be applied.