Question: Preliminary data analyses indicate that you can reasonably consider the assumptions for using the Mann-Whitney test satisfied.

A researcher was interested in comparing the GPAs of students at two different colleges. 2)

Independent simple random samples of 8 students from college A and 9 students from college B yielded the following GPAs.

At the 10% significance level, do the data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that the

mean GPA of students at college A differs from the mean GPA of students at college B?

a) What is the p-value for this test?

b) What is your decision (Reject/Fail to reject)?