The annual salaries (in ‘000 US dollars) of a random sample of workers in a company are presented in the following table. Use the data to answer the questions that follow. Annual Salary (‘000 US$) Number of workers10 215 620 1025 1030 535 2(a) Find the following measures of central tendency:(i) Mean(ii) Median(iii) Mode(b) As far as this dataset is concerned, which of the three measures of central tendency you have computed is the least useful? Explain why. (c) Calculate the standard deviation(d) Construct a 93% confidence interval for the true population mean.

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The annual salaries (in ‘000 US dollars) of a random sample of workers in a company 
are presented in the following table. Use the data to answer the questions that follow. 
Annual Salary (‘000 US$) Number of workers
10 2
15 6
20 10
25 10
30 5
35 2
(a) Find the following measures of central tendency:
(i) Mean
(ii) Median
(iii) Mode
(b) As far as this dataset is concerned, which of the three measures of central 
tendency you have computed is the least useful? Explain why. 
(c) Calculate the standard deviation
(d) Construct a 93% confidence interval for the true population mean.

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