Suppose that you want to investigate the factors that potentially affect cooking

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Suppose that you want to investigate the factors that potentially affect cooking rice

a) State the objectives of the study and what you want to achieve

b) What would you use as a response variable in this experiment? How would you measure the response?

c) Specify the treatments to be compared. That is, what factors are to be studied and at what levels? Is a control treatment needed?

d) Consider what factors (variables), other than the ones we want to investigate, might affect the response variable. How should such extraneous factors be dealt with?

Explanation / Answer

a) objective is to find the way to get rice cooked good with minimum cost

b) Taste of rice, nutrition and cost

c) Price of rise, method of cooking, temperature used, utencil used, fuel/electricity consumed

d) Other variables may be sudden rain, scarcity of rice hence price rise, shortage of fuel, electricity, etc.

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