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As part of an experiment to see how different types of soil cover would affect s

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Question

As part of an experiment to see how different types of soil cover would affect slicing tomato production, Marist College students grew tomato plants under different soil cover conditions. Groups of three plants each had one of the following treatments bare soil a commercial ground cover black plastic straw compost All plants grew under the same conditions and were the same variety. Students recorded the weight (in grams) of tomatoes produced by each of the n = 15 plants: Create the one-way ANOVA table.

Explanation / Answer

ANOVA: Single Factor

SUMMARY

Groups

Count

Sum

Average

Variance

Bare

3

10537

3512.3333

1510201.3333

Cover

3

16512

5504.0000

28252.0000

Plastic

3

18973

6324.3333

5643406.3333

straw

3

23412

7804.0000

1562743.0000

compost

3

22772

7590.6667

1478760.3333

ANOVA

Source of Variation

SS

df

MS

F

P-value

F crit

Between Groups

36648560.9333

4

9162140.2333

4.4810

0.0248

3.4780

Within Groups

20446726.0000

10

2044672.6000

Total

57095286.9333

14

Level of significance

0.05

ANOVA: Single Factor

SUMMARY

Groups

Count

Sum

Average

Variance

Bare

3

10537

3512.3333

1510201.3333

Cover

3

16512

5504.0000

28252.0000

Plastic

3

18973

6324.3333

5643406.3333

straw

3

23412

7804.0000

1562743.0000

compost

3

22772

7590.6667

1478760.3333

ANOVA

Source of Variation

SS

df

MS

F

P-value

F crit

Between Groups

36648560.9333

4

9162140.2333

4.4810

0.0248

3.4780

Within Groups

20446726.0000

10

2044672.6000

Total

57095286.9333

14

Level of significance

0.05