4. The sports performance director at a university wishes to investigate whether there is a difference in the means of the specific gravities of blood of cyclists and runners. She models the distribution of specific gravity for cyclists as \(\mathrm { N } \left( \mu _ { X } , 8 ^ { 2 } \right)\) and for runners as \(\mathrm { N } \left( \mu _ { Y } , 10 ^ { 2 } \right)\).
- State suitable hypotheses for this investigation.
The mean specific gravity of blood of a random sample of 40 cyclists from the university was 1063. The mean specific gravity of blood of a random sample of 40 runners from the same university was 1060. - Calculate and interpret the \(p\)-value for the data.
- Suppose now that both samples were of size \(n\), instead of 40. Find the least value of \(n\) that would ensure that an observed difference of 3 in the mean specific gravities would be significant at the \(1 \%\) level.