Your firm is being sued for gender discrimination, and you are evaluating the documents filed by the other side. Their data set is shown in Table 16.4.5.

a. Draw box plots for this data set on the same scale and comment on their appearance.

b.* Use a nonparametric method to test whether these salary distributions are significantly different.

c. Briefly summarize your conclusions based on the result of this test.

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TABLE 16.4.5 Gender Discrimination Data Salaries Women $21,100 29,700 26,200 23,000 25,800 23,100 21,900 20,700 26, 900 20,900 24,700 22,800 28,100 25,000 27,100 Men $38,700 30,300 32,800 34,100 30,700 33,300 34,000 38,600 36,900 35,700 26,200 27,300 32,100 35,800 26, 100 38,100 25,500 34,000 37,400 35,700 35,700 29,100