Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition (13th Edition)

13th Edition

ISBN: 9780321946393

Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, Kathryn A. Szabat

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 3, Problem 10PS

The file FastFood contains the amount that a sample of 15 customers spent for lunch $ at a fast-food restaurant:

742 6.29 5.83 6.50 8.34 9.51 7.10 6.80 5.90 4.89 6.50 5.52 7.90 8.30 9.60

a. Compute the mean and median.

b. Compute the variance, standard deviation, range, and coefficient of variation.

c. Are the data skewed? If so, how?

d. Based on the results of (a) though (c), what conclusions can you reach concealing the amount that customers spent for lunch?

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