A veterinarian knows that the supplement glucosamine is beneficial for dogs’ joints. He wants to determine if a supplement with both glucosamine and chondroitin would be more beneficial than glucosamine alone for dogs’ joint health. The veterinarian asks the owners of dogs with known joint issues if they would be willing to have their dog participate in his study, and 32 owners agree to the study. Sixteen dogs are randomly assigned to the glucosamine group and the remaining 16 are assigned to the glucosamine with chondroitin group. After 6 months, the dogs’ joint health is measured for each treatment and compared. The results of the study were inconclusive and the veterinarian decides to do the experiment again. He gets 24 volunteers and decides that he needs to use a randomized block design. Which variable would not be an appropriate variable for blocking?

age
size
color of coat
breed

Colour of coat

Step-by-step explanation:

We are told that the veterinarian wants to determine if a supplement with both glucosamine and chondroitin would be more beneficial than glucosamine alone for dogs’ joint health.

In randomized block design, blocking is the arrangement of experimental units in groups known as blocks which are similar to one another.

Looking at the options given, by blocking on size, age or dog breed, the source of variability which led to the inconclusiveness initially would be controlled which then leads to a greater accuracy in result. Since there can be big, medium and small size of dog: there can be older or younger dogs: there can be different type of dog breeds as well. All these can likely affect the results of the experiment.

Whereas, blocking on colour of coat is not an appropriate variable because it has no effect on the experiment.

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.