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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def ngroups(self):
 """Number of groups."""

        if self._can_use_new_school():
            return self._grouped_spark_sql.count()
        self._prep_pandas_groupby()
        return self._mergedRDD.count()