Cindy Ho,VP of Finance at Discrete Components,Inc.(DCI),theorizes that the discount level offered to credit customers affects the average collection period on credit sales. Accordingly,she has designed an experiment to test her theory using four sales discount rates (0%,2%,4%,and 6%)by randomly assigning five customers to each sales discount rate.Cindy's experimental design is a ________.
A) factorial design
B) random block design
C) completely randomized design
D) normalized block design
E) incomplete block design

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Cindy's experiment is a completely randomized design because she randomly assigns the customers to the various discount rates without any particular structure or blocking.