Question:
Flight 4581 travels daily from Pittsburgh to San Antonio. The flight is due into San Antonio at 5:07 p.m. The following list gives the Flight 4581 arrival time relative to 5:07 p.m. (in minutes) for a selection of 9 days. (A negative number means that the flight arrived early.) 21, 39, 37, 25, 6,-6, -4, 40, 37 Send data to Excel
(a) What is the mean of this data set? If your answer is not an integer, round your answer to one decimal place. an integer, round your answer to one decimal place.
b) How many modes does the data set have? and what are their values
Answer:
a) 21.2
b) Value of mode = 37
It contains just one mode
Step-by-step explanation:
Given:
x = 21, 39, 37, 25, 6,-6, -4, 40, 37
n = 9
a) Find the mean
Mean is the average value of a dataset.
Mean = Σx/n
Mean = [tex] \frac{21+39+37+25+6+(-6)+(-4)+40+37}{n} [/tex]
[tex] = \frac{195}{9} [/tex]
[tex] = 21.667 [/tex]
The question says one decimal place.
Therefore, mean = 21.7
b) The mode of a dataset is the value that appears most frequently.
We have the following datasets:
21, 39, 37, 25, 6,-6, -4, 40, 37
The value that appears most frequently here is 37.
37 appeared twice while the rest appeared just once.
Therefore the dataset contains just one mode
