Johnson is hired by a company to see if a new product,Topocal,will cause hair to grow on the heads of bald men.He recruits one thousand bald men,and randomly divides them into two groups:Five hundred (group A)rub Topocal on their scalps each day;the other five hundred (group B)rub a standard skin lotion on their scalps each day.After two months,Johnson checks to see what the results have been.He finds that there has been hair growth in 7 percent of group A and in 2 percent of group B.Given the size of Johnson's two groups,would you say that the results of the test are statistically significant?
A)yes
B)no
C)no way to tell

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The results of the test are statistically significant because there is a notable difference in hair growth between the two groups (7% vs 2%). The sample size (1000 participants) is also large enough to support statistical significance.

Johnson Is Hired by a Company to See If a New