4. A corporate lawyer wonders whether the vigor of antitrust enforcement differed in the 2010s compared to the 2000s. A sample of 10 firms is selected from the Fortune 500 list, and the data of table below are collected. Make an appropriate hypothesis test at the 5 percent level of significance using sign test.

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