<span>a) Explain how you would carry out a completely randomized experiment for the study
- The volunteers will be listed alphabetically and assigned a number from 1 to n. Using the random selection method, select the persons at half of the population and assign them as the treatment group getting the new medication. The remaining population will be under the current medication. Measure everyone's cholesterol level and apply the needed medication for several months. Apply the process and compare the results.
</span><span>b) Describe an experimental design that would improve the design in (a) by incorporating blocking</span><span>
- The best design would be to block by cholesterol levels (ie, High, Moderately High, Very High)
</span> c) Can the experimental design in (b) be carried out in a double blind manner?
Yes, everyone in each block randomly assigned to a treatment so volunteers are not aware of the medication they are receiving while administrators do not know what medication they are giving.
Answer: 5y + x
Step-by-step explanation: As you first step to this problem, change all your minus signs to plus negatives.
To simplify, we can only combine what are called our like terms and in this problem, we have one y-term and we have a pair of like terms in our x-terms.
So let's start by combining our y-terms.
13y + -7y simplifies to 5y.
Now we have one x-term so we have 5y + x.
