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Question: Floral scents and learning We hear that listening to Mozart improves students' performance on tests. Maybe pleasant odors have a similar effect. To test this idea, 21 subjects worked two different but roughly equivalent paper-and-pencil mazes while wearing a mask. The mask was either unscented or carried a floral scent. Each subject used both masks, in a random order. The table below gives the subjects' times (in seconds) with both masks. Note that smaller times are better.

(a) Explain why it was important to randomly assign the order in which each subject used the two masks.

(b) Do these data provide convincing evidence that the floral scent improved performance, on average?