A sports reporter suggests that professional baseball players must be, on average, older than professional football players, since football is a contact sport and players are more susceptible to concussions and serious injuries (www.sports.yahoo.com). One player was selected at random from each team in both professional baseball (MLB) and professional football (NFL). The data are summarized below.

To perform inference on these two samples, what conditions must be met? Are they? Explain

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MLB NFL n 30 32 2 27.5 26.16 3.94 2.78