To Test Whether or Not There Is a Difference Between

question 43

Multiple Choice

To test whether or not there is a difference between treatments A, B, and C, a sample of 12 observations has been randomly assigned to the 3 treatments.You are given the results below. $\begin{array}{lllll}\text { Treatment } &&{\text { Observations }} \\\text { A } & 20 & 30 & 25 & 33 \\\text { B } & 22 & 26 & 20 & 28 \\\mathrm{C} & 40 & 30 & 28 & 22\end{array}$
The mean square due to treatments (MSTR) equals

• A) 1.872.
• B) 5.86.
• C) 34.
• D) 36.

Calculate the mean and standard deviation from given data.

Apply the Empirical Rule to mound-shaped distributions to determine the percentage of data within one, two, or three standard deviations from the mean.

Use Tchebysheff's Theorem for any shaped distribution to estimate the proportion of observations within a certain number of standard deviations from the mean.

Determine the shape of a distribution based on the relationship between mean, median, and mode.

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