If we wanted to know if there was a statistically significant difference between males and females on the average number of soft drinks they consumed during a week we would be testing for the difference between averages for two groups.

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Testing for the difference between averages for two groups is a typical scenario for a two-sample t-test, which can be used to determine if there is a statistically significant difference between the means of two groups. In this case, we have two groups (males and females) and we want to compare the average number of soft drinks they consumed during a week, so a two-sample t-test would be appropriate.

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