Packet 3 Name: Section 2.3 1. A local fast-food company claims that the average
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Packet 3 Name: Section 2.3 1. A local fast-food company claims that the average salary of its employees is $13.23 per hour. An employee states that most employees make minimum wage. If both are being truthful, how could both be correct? During a quality assurance check, the actual coffee contents (in ounces) of six jars of instant coffee were recorded as 6.03, 5.59, 6.40, 6.00, 5.99, and 6.02 (a) Find the mean and the median of the coffee content. (b) The third value was incorrectly measured and is actually 6.04. Find the mean and the median of the coffee content again. (c) Which measure of central tendency, the mean or the median, was affected more by the data entry error? 2.Explanation / Answer
Ans 1.
The average is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.
If most of the earn minimu, wage that means there will be few who would be earning much more than $13.23 and working as outliers to affect the measure of central tendency (Average).
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