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The following summarizes the number of fiction books read last summer by a sample of 33 students.Number of students 2,7,16,8Number of books read per student 2,3,4,7What is the mean number of books read? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

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The mean is 4

To find the mean of a data set, we use:


Mean=\frac{Sum\text{ }of\text{ }values}{Total\text{ }number\text{ }of\text{ }values}

The values given are:

2, 3, 4, 7

The total number of values are 4. Then:


Mean=(2+3+4+7)/(4)=(16)/(4)=4

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