Question

. Here are the starting salaries, in thousands of dollars, offered to the 20 students who earned degrees in computer science in 2018 at a university: 83 78 86 9770 73 98 75110 85 84 89 7996 68 74 6988 71 70 a. Make a graph to describe the distribution and write a brief description of its important features. b. Find the median salary c. Find the mean salary. d. Find the mode of the salaries. e. Is the mean about the same as the median or not? What feature of this distribution explains the difference between the mean and the median? Is the mode a good measure of the center for these data? Why or why not? 2. Each month, the Commerce Department reports the "average" price of new single- family homes. For August 2017, the two averages" reported were $356,900 and $395,300. Which of these numbers was the mean price and which was the median price? Explain your answer.

Answer 1