Mom and Grandma are each baking chocolate chip cookies. Each gives you two cookies. One of Mom's cookies has 14 chips in it and the other has 11. Grandma's cookies have 6 and 8 chips. a) Estimate the mean number of chips in one of Mom's cookies. b) Estimate the mean number of chips in one of Grandma's cookies. c) Find the uncertainty in the estimate for Mom's cookies. d) Find the uncertainty in the estimate for Grandma's cookies. e) Estimate how many more chips there are on the average in one of Mom's cookies than in one of Grandma's. Find the uncertainty in this estimate.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...