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Statistics — sample size for a test of difference of means

The mean height of 5050 male students who showed above average participation in college athletics was 68.268.2 inches with a standard deviation of 2.52.5 inches, while 5050 male students who showed no interest in such participation had a mean height of 67.567.5 inches with a standard deviation of 2.82.8 inches. In order that the observed difference in the mean height to be significant at 5%5\% level of significance, the sample size of each of the two groups has to be increased by (the critical value of ZZ at 5%5\% level of significance is 1.6451.645)

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