Hypothesis Testing: One-way ANOVA
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5 new pills are tested with the aim of reducing blood pressure.
4 participants are assigned to each pill and their blood pressure is measured.
Here is some of the data:

In addition, the total sum of squares is 7000
a) Calculate the mean square of the treatments.
b) Calculate an estimate for the overall variance.
c) At the 5% level of significance, are there significant differences in the mean blood pressures from pill to pill?