A medical researcher believes that women typically have lower serum cholesterol than men. To test this hypothesis, he took a

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A medical researcher believes that women typically have lower serum cholesterol than men. To test this hypothesis, he took a sample of 476 men between the ages of nineteen and forty-four and found their mean serum cholesterol to be 189.0 mg/dl with a sample standard deviation of 34.2.Agroup of 592 women in the same age range averaged 177.2 mg/dl and had a sample standard deviation of 33.3. Is the lower average for the women statistically significant? Set α = 0.05.

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