Question

You want to know the mean number of sick days taken by students in your county last year. At each of five schools you randomly survey ten students. Your results are shown. Use all five samples to make one estimate for the mean number sick days taken by students in your county last year.

A: 0, 1, 1, 3, 0, 3, 0, 2, 3, 4
B: 0, 0, 0, 5, 21, 6, 8, 1, 2, 4
C: 11, 8, 1, 1, 0, 0, 4, 4, 4, 6
D: 8, 0, 10, 8, 6, 7, 9, 2, 1, 1
E: 2, 4, 5, 0, 5, 0, 5, 4, 0, 20

___ Days?

Answer 1

4

Explanation:

Add each sample separately

A.17 B. 47 C. 39 D. 52 E. 45

Then you add them all together which totals 200 sick days

We know that they surveyed 5 schools and 10 students at random from each one. So we want to know the mean of sick days the students took not the schools in all.

So we divide 200/50

And get a mean of 4.

So each student took an average of 4 sick days each in the country.