TABLE 11-6 An Agronomist Wants to Compare the Crop Yield of 3

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TABLE 11-6
An agronomist wants to compare the crop yield of 3 varieties of chickpea seeds. She plants all 3 varieties of the seeds on each of 5 different patches of fields. She then measures the crop yield in bushels per acre. Treating this as a randomized block design, the results are presented in the table that follows.
-Referring to Table 11-6, the agronomist decided to perform a randomized block F test for the difference in the means. The amount of total variation or SST is ________.

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