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Waffle Home will be adding oatmeal to its menu so it ran a designed experiment t

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Question

Waffle Home will be adding oatmeal to its menu so it ran a designed experiment to determine what to offer. Two different "Types" of oatmeal were used, "Steel Cut" and "Quaker Oats" Four different types of "Sugar" were used, "None", "Raw" "Brown", and "White". Served with or without "Milk". "With" and "Without". Waffle Home served 2880 bowls of oatmeal measuring "Customer Satisfaction" for each bowl served. The StatCrunch dataset is set up like this: What was the response variable for this experiment? _________ If every combination of the factors were used by the experimenter, how many different treatments were there in this experiment? Show calculation. How many total replications were possible? Show calculation.

Explanation / Answer

Answer:          

a). Response variable: Customer satisfaction

b).

Type: 2 level

Sugar: 4 level

Milk: 2 level

Number of treatment levels = 2*4*2

=16

c).

Total replications = 2880/16

= 180