Question

The employees of two companies are surveyed to find the number of people in each department who hold master’s degrees. The mean absolute deviation of company 1 or company 2 is higher.

A. Company 1
B. Company 2
C. Both have the same mean absolute deviation.
D. Insufficient information to determine.

Answer 1

The mean absolute deviation cannot be determined without the actual data for the number of people in each department with master's degrees in both companies.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine whether the mean absolute deviation of company 1 or company 2 is higher, we need the actual data on the number of people in each department who hold master's degrees for both companies. The mean absolute deviation (MAD) is a measure of the dispersion of data around the mean. It is calculated by finding the absolute difference between each data point and the mean, summing these differences, and then dividing by the number of data points.