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2. A researcher wishes to test the claim that there is a difference in the distribution...

2. A researcher wishes to test the claim that there is a difference in the distribution of ages of elementary school, high school, and community college teachers. Teachers are randomly selected from each group. Their ages are recorded below. Can you conclude that the distributions of teachers' ages at these different levels of education are different? Use the Kruskal-Wallis test. Use α = 0.05. Elementary 28,33,32,57,42,30 High school 41,46,43,52,47,36 Comm. College 44,50,41,66,50,40 need work shown

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