Assignment

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1. A rental car company wants to investigate whether the type of car rented affects the length of the rental period.  An experiment is run for one week at a particular location, and 10 rental contracts are selected at random for each car type.  The results are shown in the following table.

Type of Car

Observations

Sub-compact

4

6

4

8

7

6

4

3

2

7

Compact

2

4

5

8

6

7

4

3

2

8

Midsize

5

2

4

6

8

2

3

5

3

8

Full Size

4

6

8

6

11

4

5

8

3

8

Is there evidence to support a claim that the type of car rented affects the length of the rental contract? Use α=0.05.  Solve this problem using either Excel or Minitab.

2. A computer ANOVA output is shown below.  Fill in the blanks.  You may give bounds on the P-value.

One-way ANOVA

Source

DF

SS

MS

F

P

Factor

3

36.15

?

?

?

Error

?

?

?

Total

19

196.04

3. Watch this short video on "Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Overview". Then summarize what you learned about ANOVA from this video. Illustrate your answer with an example.