An Electronics Company Wants to Compare the Quality of Their

question 2

Multiple Choice

An electronics company wants to compare the quality of their cell phones to the cell phones from three competitors. They sample 10 phones from each company and count the number of defects for each phone. If ANOVA is used to compare the average number of defects, the treatments would be defined as:

• A) the number of cell phones sampled.
• B) the average number of defects.
• C) the total number of phones.
• D) the four companies.

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