Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences
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Chapter 10, Problem 38SE
An article in the British scientific journal Nature (“Sucrose Induction of Hepatic Hyperplasia in the Rat,” August 25,1972: 461) reports on an experiment in which each of five groups consisting of six rats was put on a diet with a different carbohydrate. At the conclusion of the experiment, the DNA content of the liver of each rat was determined (mg/g liver), with the following results:
| Carbohydrate |
|
| Starch | 2.58 |
| Sucrose | 2.63 |
| Fructose | 2.13 |
| Glucose | 2.41 |
| Maltose | 2.49 |
Assuming also that
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