Question

The average domestic economy car gets around 30.9 miles per gallon (MPG) with a standard deviation of 2.88. Suppose domestic manufacturers all vow to increase fuel economy over the next 2 years. If successesful, 2.9 is added to every observation in the dataset. What is the new mean

Answer 1

33.8

Explanation:

Given that :

Initial Average miles per gallon = 30.9

Uniform value added to each data in the set = 2.9

The mean value of a dataset shifts by the uniform value added to each value in the dataset. This is always true whenever a uniform value is added to values across a dataset irrespective of the number of samples.

Hence

Initial mean. + uniform Value

30.9 + 2.9 = 33.8