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Author: Richard D. De Veaux
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Chapter 11, Problem 4E
Tomatoes You want to compare the tastiness and juiciness of tomatoes grown with three amounts of a new fertilizer: none, half the recommended amount, and the full recommended amount. You allocate 6 tomato plants to receive each amount of fertilizer, assigning them at random. What are the experimental units? What is the response variable?
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