Better indication of the central tendency


At their first inaugurations, the first 10 presidents of the United States were

57   61   57   57   58   57   61  54  68  51

years old.  Find the mean, median, and mode of the ages of those presidents at their first inauguration.

At a certain company, in a particular month the sales staff met the following percentages of their sales quota:

107   90   80   92   86   109   102   92   353   78   74   102   106   95   91.

Find the mean and median for this set of data.  Which of these measures is a better indication of the “central tendency” of this set of data?

An instructor counts the final examination in a course three times as much as each of the three one-hour examinations.  What is the average grade of a student who received grades of 72, 86, and 80 in the three one-hour examinations and 90 in the final examination?

In five attempts, it took a person

12    18    14    11    15
minutes to change the oil in a particular make of automobile.  Calculate the standard deviation of this sample using

a)    the formula which defines s;

b)    the computing formula for s.

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