Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
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ISBN: 9781133956570
Author: Frederick J Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3.5, Problem 1LC
During the month of October, an instructor recorded the number of absences for each student in a class of n = 20 and obtained the following distribution.
| Number of Absences | f |
| 5 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 |
| 3 | 7 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 0 | 2 |
- a. Using the
mean , what is the average number of absences for the class? - b. Using the
median , what is the average number of absences tor the class? - c. Using the
mode , what is the average number of absences for the class?
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