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A botanist is curious if fertilizers will improve the yields of their otherwise unfertilized tomato plants. They buy two different types of fertilizer, and for each plant in their garden they flip a coin to assign a fertilizer to that plant. Explain a major flaw in their experiment, and how they might resolve it.

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Answer flipping a coin provide in accurate data because an experiment should be repeated multiple times with the same conditions. They should be using multiple tomato plants and the two fertilizers should go equally to the tomato plant and should not be flipping a coin

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I have zero clue what the question wants but that’s a flaw

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