Concept explainers
a.
To find: The average price for 14 sellers.
a.
Answer to Problem 2.12E
The average price for 14 sellers is
Explanation of Solution
Given information: The data is shown below.
Seller | Price($) | Seller | Price($) |
Buy.com | 216.49 | Dell | 184.86 |
Sears | 222.84 | Kmart | 222.84 |
Sam's Club | 180.17 | EagleDirectUSA | 231.04 |
Sales | 279.90 | Wii4family | 262.95 |
Place Toys | 280.98 | Quickship | 299.48 |
Simbaoo7 | 289.97 | Buy-it-now | 384.99 |
Jandk42S | 433.00 | SW Evolution | 1024.24 |
Calculation:
The data is shown below.
Seller | Price($) |
Buy.com | 216.49 |
Sears | 222.84 |
Sam's Club | 180.17 |
Sales | 279.90 |
Place Toys | 280.98 |
Simbaoo7 | 289.97 |
Jandk42S | 433.00 |
Dell | 184.86 |
Kmart | 222.84 |
EagleDirectUSA | 231.04 |
Wii4family | 262.95 |
Quickship | 299.48 |
Buy-it-now | 384.99 |
SW Evolution | 1024.24 |
Total | 4513.75 |
The mean is,
Thus, the average price for 14 sellers is
b.
To find: The median of the data.
b.
Answer to Problem 2.12E
The median of the data is
Explanation of Solution
Given information: The data is shown below.
Seller | Price($) | Seller | Price($) |
Buy.com | 216.49 | Dell | 184.86 |
Sears | 222.84 | Kmart | 222.84 |
Sam's Club | 180.17 | EagleDirectUSA | 231.04 |
Sales | 279.90 | Wii4family | 262.95 |
Place Toys | 280.98 | Quickship | 299.48 |
Simbaoo7 | 289.97 | Buy-it-now | 384.99 |
Jandk42S | 433.00 | SW Evolution | 1024.24 |
Calculation:
The median is,
Thus, the median of the data is
c.
To find:Whether the customer is interested in average price if not the variable in which customer is interested.
c.
Answer to Problem 2.12E
The customer is not interested in average price and the variable is
Explanation of Solution
Given information: The data is shown below.
Seller | Price($) | Seller | Price($) |
Buy.com | 216.49 | Dell | 184.86 |
Sears | 222.84 | Kmart | 222.84 |
Sam's Club | 180.17 | EagleDirectUSA | 231.04 |
Sales | 279.90 | Wii4family | 262.95 |
Place Toys | 280.98 | Quickship | 299.48 |
Simbaoo7 | 289.97 | Buy-it-now | 384.99 |
Jandk42S | 433.00 | SW Evolution | 1024.24 |
Since, the average can be misleading and the average provide the collected data of the all values while the mode provide the frequency of the value.
Thus, the customer is not interested in average price and the variable is mode.
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