Answer to Question #6271 in Statistics and Probability for jineen

Question

Suppose a toy company wants to know if certain colors are mmore appealing to toddlers then others. they decide to measure this be choosing 5 colors of blocks and making sets of blocks i each of the five colors. then they found 30 toddlers to participate in the study, and they randomly assigned each toddler a block color. they observed each toddler separately at the same time of the day, and gave them no other toys to play with. they recorded the length of the time each toddler played with the blocs, to see if some colors of blocks were played with longer then other colors. all toddlers in the experiment where the same age (2 years old) and an equal number of girls and boys played with each color of blocks. A) what is the explanatory variable and what is the response variable? B) What is your clue to know that this is an experiment instead of an observational study? C)Name one confounding variable that was controlled for in this study