WJEC Further Unit 5 2019 June — Question 7

Exam BoardWJEC
ModuleFurther Unit 5 (Further Unit 5)
Year2019
SessionJune
TopicWilcoxon tests

7. Nathan believes that shearers from Wales can shear more sheep, on average, in a given time than shearers from New Zealand. He takes a random sample of 8 shearers from Wales and 7 shearers from New Zealand. The numbers below indicate how many sheep were sheared in 45 minutes by the 15 shearers.
Wales:6053423837363128
New Zealand:39352726171615
Use a Mann-Whitney U test at the \(1 \%\) significance level to test whether Nathan is correct. You must state your hypotheses clearly and state the critical region.