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An advertisement for a lawn service claims their fertilizer treatment kills weeds in half the
time. When you read the small print at the bottom of the ad, you see that they asked 20 of their
long-term customers to estimate how long it took until their weeds died out before employing
the lawn service. On average, the customers said it took 4 weeks for all the weeds to die before
the service. The company knows that their fertilizer treatment can kill weeds in 2 weeks. Why
is this advertisement misleading?

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The reason why the advertisement misleading is: Number of size which is 20 is a very sample size to make this conclusion valid.

What is advertisement?

Advertisement can be defined as the process of creating awareness about a product so as to increase sales.

Based on the given scenario the advertisement is misleading based on the following reasons:

  • The sample size which is 20 is a very small sample size to make this conclusion valid.

  • The customers said it will take 4 weeks for all the weeds to die before while the company on the other hand knew that the fertilizer treatment can kill weeds in 2 weeks.

Therefore The reason why the advertisement misleading is: Number of size which is 20 is a very sample size to make this conclusion valid.

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