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To find: Which measure of central tendency might the store wants to use to attract people to work.
Answer to Problem 12PPS
The store wants to use the central tendency mean to attract people to work.
Explanation of Solution
Given:
The hourly wages of employees in a small store are
Calculation:
The given data is
Find mean, medina and mode of this data.
In order to find the median arrange this data in numeric order
The number of data is seven which is odd.
So, median is given by
Now, in the given set of data, the number 8 occurs thrice.
So, the median is 8.
Among the mean, median and mode, the greatest is mean.
Therefore, the store wants to use the central tendency mean to attract people to work.
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