Elementary Statistics
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780321836960
Author: Mario F. Triola
Publisher: PEARSON
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For Chapter 2 through Chapter 14, the Cumulative Review Exercises include topics from preceding chapters. For this chapter, we present a few calculator warm-up exercises, with expressions similar to those found throughout this book. Use your calculator to find the indicated values.
1. Flights Refer to the flight numbers listed in the first column of Data Set 15 in Appendix B. What value is obtained when those 48 numbers are added and the total is then divided by 48? (This result, called the mean, is discussed in Chapter 3.) Does the result have any meaning?
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