You Wish to Construct a 90% Confidence Interval to Compare

Multiple Choice

You wish to construct a 90% confidence interval to compare the mean measurement for two groups.A small pilot study yields sample standard deviations of 10 and 12 for Group 1 and Group 2,respectively.If we wish to obtain a margin of error of at most 2,what sample size should we take from each group? Assume equal sample sizes.

A) 165
B) 168
C) 169
D) 166
E) 167