SCENARIO 11-12 a Student Team in a Business Statistics Course Designed an Designed

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SCENARIO 11-12
A student team in a business statistics course designed an experiment to investigate whether the brand
of bubblegum used affected the size of bubbles they could blow. To reduce the person-to-person
variability, the students decided to use a randomized block design using themselves as blocks.
Four brands of bubblegum were tested. A student chewed two pieces of a brand of gum and then blew
a bubble, attempting to make it as big as possible. Another student measured the diameter of the
bubble at its biggest point. The following table gives the diameters of the bubbles (in inches) for the
16 observations.
-Referring to Scenario 11-12, the among-block variation or SSBL is __________.

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Definitions:

Objectivity Concept

An accounting principle that requires financial and accounting information to be independent and based on measurable and verifiable data.

Unit of Measure

A standard quantity used to express a physical quantity, ensuring uniformity in the reporting of financial and operational data.

Business Entity Concept

An accounting principle that treats a business as separate from its owners or shareholders for financial reporting purposes.

Internal Users

Internal users are individuals or groups within an organization who use financial information to make decisions about the operations of the company, such as management and employees.