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Consider the statistics of two sets of observations as follows: Size Mean Variance Observation I 10 2 2 Observation II n 3 1 If the variance of the…

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Consider the statistics of two sets of observations as follows:

SizeMeanVariance
Observation I101010222222
Observation IInnn333111
If the variance of the combined set of these two observations is 179,\frac{17}{9},917​, then the value of nnn is equal to ________.
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