Question 14.211

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12. Military Veterans. The following table contains the number of U.S. military veterans (in thousands) for a random sample of 13 states.

  1. Verify that the data are symmetric.
  2. Use the Wilcoxon signed rank test to test whether the population median number of veterans per state differs from 100,000, using level of significance .
State Veterans (1000s)
Montana 104
Vermont 55
Alaska 75
New Hampshire 132
Kansas 237
Nevada 246
Arkansas 262
South Dakota 74
West Virginia 178
Maine 144
Delaware 81
North Dakota 58
Mississippi 216