Consider the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

question 16

Multiple Choice

Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:
A health food company wants to determine the best process for blanching dark green vegetable material so it can be added to other food products without losing vitamin A. They are examining three different blanching processes to determine which is best in terms of vitamin A retention (mg/100mg) . The data collected and partial ANOVA results appear below.

-The P-value for this statistic turns out to be < 0.001. Therefore, at α = 0.05

• A) we fail to reject the null hypothesis.
• B) we reject the alternative hypothesis.
• C) we conclude that mean vitamin A retention amounts are all equal across the different blanching processes.
• D) we support the null hypothesis and conclude that at least two mean vitamin A retention amounts are equal.
• E) we reject the null hypothesis and conclude that at least one mean vitamin A retention amount is different from the others.

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