Mathematics for the Trades: A Guided Approach (11th Edition) (What's New in Trade Math)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780134756967
Author: Hal Saunders, Robert Carman
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 6FPS
Agriculture The following list of numbers represents the total annual U.S. cotton harvest, in acres, for the years 1982–2015.
- (a) Construct a grouped frequency distribution for these yields using class widths of 1000 and beginning with 7000–7999.
- (b) Calculate the mean and the standard deviation of the grouped data rounded to the nearest whole number.
- (c) In 2015, the average yield per acre was about 1150 pounds of cotton. Based on this figure, what was the mean total yield in pounds?
- (d) Based on an average price of $0.67 per pound, what was the value of the mean total yield? (Round to the nearest hundred thousand dollars.)
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Mathematics for the Trades: A Guided Approach (11th Edition) (What's New in Trade Math)
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