Suppose you have been hired as a management consultant by a major oil company to

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Suppose you have been hired as a management consultant by a major oil company to help it optimally price gasoline at its service stations. You have assigned your staff member, Troy, to divide a group of survey participants into a treatment group and a control group. The intent is tel Group A that gas prices have increased, and group B will be told that gas prices have not changed. Participant members will then be surveyed about their purchasing habits. When you come back from lunch you notice how Troy has set up the groups: Number of People 75 75 Number of Men Number of Women 73 Group A Group B 70 You tell Troy that (1) because the groups are (2) the same size (1) O he has done a bad job (2) O he should go to lunch O he has done a good job O not randomly constructed O randomly constructed O not the same size

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Ans of 1 is A and 2 is B

Since number of men in sample taken in group A amd group B is highly unequal. Thus there is biased and tge treatment group and control group is not same. Thus Troy has done a bad jobs because the groups are not randomly constructed.

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