SCENARIO 11-13
an Important Factor in Selecting Database Software Is

question 92

Short Answer

SCENARIO 11-13
An important factor in selecting database software is the time required for a user to learn how to use
the system. To evaluate three potential brands (A, B and C) of database software, a company
designed a test involving five different employees. To reduce variability due to differences among
employees, each of the five employees is trained on each of the three different brands. The amount of
time (in hours) needed to learn each of the three different brands is given below: $\begin{array}{ | r | r | r | r | } \hline & & \text { Software } & \\\hline \text { Operator } & \text { A } & \text { B } & \text { C } \\\hline 1 & 17 & 17 & 23 \\\hline 2 & 18 & 17 & 23 \\\hline 3 & 14 & 13 & 19 \\\hline 4 & 12 & 11 & 18 \\\hline 5 & 19 & 17 & 22 \\\hline \text { Mean } & 16 & 15 & 21 \\\hline\end{array}$

$\text { Below is the Excel output for the randomized block design: }$
$\begin{array}{lrrrrrr}\hline \text { Source of Variation } & S S & d f & \text { MS } & {\text { F }} & \text { P-value } & \text { Fcrit } \\\hline \text { Rows } & 84.66667 & 4 & 21.16667 & 50.8 & 9.98 \mathrm{E}-06 & 3.837853 \\\text { Columns } & 103.3333 & 2 & 51.66667 & 124 & 9.54 \mathrm{E}-07 & 4.45897 \\\text { Error } & 3.333333 & 8 & 0.416667 & & & \\\text { Total } & 191.3333 & 14 & & & & \\\hline\end{array}$
-Referring to Scenario 11-13, what is the critical value of the randomized block F test for the
difference in the means at a level of significance of 0.05?

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Definitions:

Monopolistic Competition

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Positive Economic Profits

Earnings that exceed the total costs, including both explicit and implicit costs, signalling strong market performance.

Monopolistically Competitive

Monopolistically competitive refers to a market structure where many firms sell similar but not identical products, with each firm having some degree of market power.

Short Run

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