Question

A company famous for its nacho-flavored corn chips has developed two new formulas, A and B, which they hope their customers will like even more than the original formula. To determine whether customers prefer one of the new formulas over the current nacho flavoring, a sample of 50 customers is obtained. Each customer tastes both formula A and formula B in a randomly assigned order and indicates which one they prefer more. Which of the following best describes this study?a. This study is not well designed because there is no replication. Each customer tasted the formulas only once.

b. This study is not well designed because formulas A and B are not compared with the original formula.
c. This study is not well designed because the sample may not have been randomly selected.
d. This study is not well designed because each customer should taste the two new formulas in the same order.
e. This study is not well designed because there is not enough replication with only 50 customers.

Answer 1

This study is not well designed because formulas A and B are not compared with the original formula.

Explanation:

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Answer 2

b. This study is not well designed because formulas A and B are not compared with the original formula is the best descriptionfor this study

Explanation:

This study was mainly conducted to know about the customer's preference for a new formula of corn chips which related with the original formula ., whether the customer's like the new formula than the old one.,so the company must include the old formula along with the two new formula's for customer's consideration. But .,Here they introduced and tested only the new formula's.,

So.,

Comparison of all the three formulas is must., to know about the exact preference of customer's on new formula's than the old formula.,so option b is preferable