HOMEWORK 2

(I) An agronomist wants to compare the crop yield of 3 varieties of chickpea seeds. She plants 15
fields, 5 with each variety. She then measures the crop yield in bushels per acre. Treating this as
a completely randomized design, the results are presented in the table that follows.

1. State the null hypothesis that can be tested.

2. The value of the test statistic is __________.
3. The value of MSA is __________, while MSW is __________.
4. True or False: the null hypothesis should be rejected at 0.005 level of significance.
5. True or False: the test is valid only if the population of crop yields has the same variance for
the 3 varieties.

(II) The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the
weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers
who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results:

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1. What are the values of the estimated intercept and slope?
2. What is the value of the coefficient of determination?
3. What is the value of the coefficient of correlation?
4. True or False: the mean weekly sales will increase by an estimated $0.01 for each additional
purchasing customer.
5. True or False: 93.98% of the total variation in weekly sales can be explained by the variation
in the number of customers who make purchases.