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A data set of red and orange M&M's yield the following sample weight data. Use the 0.05 significance level to test for equality of the two population means using the traditional approach to hypothesis testing.

Red M&M's
n1 = 21
x1 = 0.9097 grams
s1 = 0.0275 grams

Orange M&M's

n2 = 8
x2 = 0.9251 grams
s1 = 0.0472 grams

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