Medical Wonders Is a Specialized Interior Design Company Focused on Healing

question 27

Multiple Choice

Medical Wonders is a specialized interior design company focused on healing artwork. The CEO, Kathleen Kelledy, claims that artwork has healing effects for patients staying in a hospital, as measured by reduced length of stay. Her current client is a children's cancer hospital. Kathleen is interested in determining the effect of three different pieces of healing artwork on children. She chooses three paintings (a horse photo, a bright abstract, and a muted beach scene) and randomly assigns six hospital rooms to each painting. Analysis of Kathleen's data yielded the following ANOVA table: Using $\alpha$ = 0.05, the critical F value is ___.

• A) 13.68
• B) 19.43
• C) 3.59
• D) 19.45
• E) 3.68

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