Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition

14th Edition

ISBN: 9780134685113

Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn Szabat

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 3, Problem 39PS

The file McDonaldsStores contains the number of McDonaldâ€™s stores located in each of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia as of December 31, 2016:

a. Compute the mean variance and standard deviation for this population.

b. What percentage of the 50 states have a number of McDonald's stores within ± 1 , ± 2 , or ± 3 standard deviations of the mean?

c. Compare your findings with what would be expected on the basis of the empirical rule. Are you surprised at the results in (b)?

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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