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A clinical study records patient recovery times for two dosage protocols, Protocol A and Protocol B. Protocol A is administered to 10 patients and yields a sample variance of 27 hours squared. Protocol B is administered to 16 patients and yields a population variance of 18 hours squared. If both protocols produce identical mean recovery times

What is the sample variance, in hours squared, of the combined dataset of 26 patients?

  1. 20.42
  2. 20.52
  3. 21.24
  4. 21.46
  5. 21.60

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