Statistics (12th Edition)

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Chapter 2 - Methods for Describing Sets of Data - Exercises 2.48 - 2.70 - Applying the Concepts - Basic - Page 58: 2.63b

Answer

The mean, obtained by adding all observations and dividing by the number of observations, is $-4.86.$ The median, representing the score under which we find $ 50\%$ of the observations, is $-4.85$ The mode, that is, the score appearing the most number of times in the dataset, is $-5$. The mean and median are roughly the same number, so we can say that the distribution of the radioactivity levels is approximately symmetric.

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