Concept explainers
To find: The mean, median, and mode of the given data set.
Answer to Problem 7PPE
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
A data set is given, weights of books (oz):
Calculation:
Given data set is
Arranging data set in ascending order,
Since number of data values are
Mode is the data item that occurs the most times. Here mode is
Since in the given data there is no outlier data value. Therefore, mean would be best measure to describe the data set.
Hence, for the given data set −
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