Essentials of Statistics (5th Edition)

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ISBN 13: 978-0-32192-459-9

Chapter 9 - Inferences from Two Samples - Review - Cumulative Review Exercises - Page 475: 10

Answer

No the result is not the mean income for the U.S. population.

Work Step by Step

To find the mean income of the US population you have to incorporate the population size of every state individually due to the differences and population sizes of each of the 50 states. Therefore it would be inaccurate to Simply add the means of the 50 states and divide 8 by 50.
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