Question 14.66

24. Earthquake Magnitudes. The following data from the U.S. Geological Survey represent the magnitude on the Richter scale of a random sample of 10 earthquakes worldwide that occurred during the week of August 3, 2014.

5.6 5.0 6.3 5.4 5.7 5.3 5.1 4.5 5.3 4.9

The accompanying figure is a boxplot of the data. Use the Wilcoxon signed rank test to test whether the population median magnitude of earthquakes is less than 6.0. Use level of significance .

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