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Research Simulation Scenario
Mathematical and Computer Simulation Models:
Theory & Application

Consider the second simulation run in which we increased the sample size to 120 animals as illustrated the following figure.

What differences between these two curves do you observe and how might that impact your experiment? What might you conclude about sample size based upon comparing these two figures? Knowing that it costs approximately $3.00/ rat/day to perform this experiment, how would that possibly affect your experimental design?

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