A buyer for a manufacturing plant suspects that his primary supplier of raw materials is overcharging. In order to determine if his suspicion is correct, he contacts a second supplier and asks for the prices on various identical materials. He wants to compare these prices with those of his primary supplier. He collected data on 6 different materials from both suppliers. He suspects that the differences are not normally distributed. Which of the following tests will be the most appropriate?
A) paired t test
B) Wilcoxon rank sum test
C) pooled-variance t test
D) Wilcoxon signed rank test

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The Wilcoxon signed rank test is appropriate for comparing two related samples when the differences are not normally distributed.

A Buyer for a Manufacturing Plant Suspects That His Primary