SCENARIO 10-3
as Part of an Evaluation Program, a Sporting

question 59

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SCENARIO 10-3
As part of an evaluation program, a sporting goods retailer wanted to compare the downhill coasting speeds of 4 brands of bicycles.She took 3 of each brand and determined their maximum downhill speeds.The results are presented in miles per hour in the table below. $\begin{array}{lllll}\text { Trial}&\text { Barth}&\text { Tornado }&\text {Reiser}&\text { Shaw }\\1 & 43 & 37 & 41 & 43 \\2 & 46 & 38 & 45 & 45 \\3 & 43 & 39 & 42 & 46\end{array}$
-Referring to SCENARIO 10-3, based on the Tukey-Kramer procedure with an overall level of significance of 0.05, the retailer would decide that the mean speed for the Tornado brand is significantly different from each of the mean speeds for other brands.

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