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A physician who specializes in weight control has three different diets she recommends. As an experiment, she randomly selected 15 patients and then assigned 5 to each diet. After three weeks the following weight losses, in pounds, were noted. At the .05 significance level, can she conclude that there is a difference in the mean amount of weight loss among the three diets?

Plan A Plan B Plan C
5 6 7
7 7 8
4 7 9
5 5 8
4 6 9

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This is a comparison between the mean amount of weight loss among three different diet plans.

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