Suppose the U.S. Department of Labor would like to determine if construction workers in the Northeast work more hours per week than construction workers in the Southeast do. A random sample of workers in each region was selected, and the number of hours these people worked was recorded and is as follows.

Perform a hypothesis test with α = 0.05 to determine if the median number of hours construction employees in the Northeast worked is greater than the median number of hours construction employees in the Southeast worked.

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Northeast: 42 34 39 43 42 39 31 Southeast: 32 35 30 33 40 39