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Hypothesis testing in experiments

Physicians had a hypothesis that smoking harms lung function. A person's lung function is commonly measured by their Forced Expiratory Volume (FEV), which is the maximum volume of air (in milliliters) a person is able to exhale forcefully in 11 second. The greater the FEV, the better the lung function.
A group of 10001000 smokers was randomized between a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group was enrolled in a special program and quit smoking, while the control group kept their smoking habits. The participants' FEV was measured just before the beginning of the experiment and 55 years later.
The results of the experiment showed that the mean change in FEV of the treatment group is 150 ml150\text{ ml} more than the mean change of the control group. To test whether the results could be explained by random chance, the researchers created the table below, which summarizes the results of 10001000 re-randomizations of the data (with differences between means rounded to the nearest 25 ml25\text{ ml}).
According to the simulations, what is the probability of the treatment group's mean being higher than the control group's mean by 150 ml150\text{ ml} or more?
Assume that if the probability you found is lower than 5%5\%, then the result should be considered significant.
What should we conclude regarding the experiment's result?
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Treatment group mean - Control group meanFrequency
175-17511
150-15066
125-1251515
100-1004141
75-758282
50-50143143
25-25150150
00167167
2525132132
5050127127
75757373
1001003838
1251251818
15015066
17517511