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5. Keisha collected and weighed 5 soil samples for a science project. What is the mean weight of thesoil sample?Sample 1112.345Weight37.2g43.6g29.8840.1g39.4g

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The mean of a group of numbers is the division of the sum of each individual value by the number of samples. With this in mind, we have:


\mu=(34.2+43.6+29.88+40.1+39.4)/(5)
\mu=(187.18)/(5)=37.436

The mean weight of the samples is 37.436 kg.

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