want to test the four instructional COln ust tw se one, two, three, and four components (rather than just two at a time). Now how many experimental groups will there be? Specify them; that is, list them. 3. Guinevere has four awards to distribute among nine knights: the coveted “knight of the year” award, an award for chivalry, an award for bravery, and an award for diligence. How many possible arrangements are there of the as- signment of the four awards to the nine knights? 4, John is not very clever at anagrams, but he’s made up for it by taking a statistics course. He decides to enumerate all of the possible permutations of the letters of “TEAM” in order to find how many other four-letter words can be spelled with those letters. How many possible arrangements of those letters are there? How many of those are English words? If the letters are drawn at random, what is the probability of getting an English word? 5. Suppose that King Arthur requires four knights from among nine for a danger- ous mission. Lots are drawn in a completely unbiased fashion. What is the possible number of groupings? You are designing a human memory experiment in which you will measure reaction time as a subject pushes a button to indicate whether or not a particu- lar word that appears on a visual display is one of those that the subject has been asked to hold in memory. You have four treatment conditions: (1) two veanicu wiur Cal10. 11. Section 2 Inforential 5 , ion 2 Inferential Statistics: Basic Principles and Their Application words held in memory, (2) fourh ys held, (3) six held, and (4) ei i : ° 4 i sight held in memory. You w ant each subject to get all four conditions but you want to “ unterbal- ant He an every possible ordering of the four conditions is used. How many possible orderings are there? List them. If you want three subjects to be as- signed to each of the possible orderings, how many subjects will you have to have? From a classroom of 10 students, 5 are to be randomly selected to receive a special type of instruction, the remaining 5 to serve as controls. How many different experimental groups is it possible to create? In the group of 10 students of Problem 7, it so happens that 6 are male and 4 are female How many different treatment groups is it possible to create that are all male? (Does it make any difference what the order of selection is in describing a particular treatment group?) swers to Problems 7 and 8, what is the probability of randomly t group consisting of all males? ‘oblems 7, 8, and 9, calculate the proba- Using your an: creating a treatmen| ing the description and results of Pr pili of randomly creating a control group of ‘actly four females and one is (Before forging ahead with paper ‘and pencil, stop and think of any rela- tionship this set-up has to the question asked in Problem 9.) is wife talk independently of one another, neither listening to the ‘Aman and his wife talk incrh’'she talks one third of the time, What is the * ocarmeda wir val