Suppose you wanted to estimate the difference between two population means correct to within 4 at the 91% confidence level. If prior information suggests that both population variances are approximately equal to 15.5 and you want to select independent random samples of equal size from the populations, how large should the sample sizes be?

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  • Suppose you wanted to estimate the difference between two population means correct to within 4 at the 91% confidence level. If prior information suggests that both population variances are approximately equal to 15.5 and you want to select independent random samples of equal size from the populations, how large should the sample sizes be?

 

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