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An English teacher wants to know the

mean number of words students included
in recent essays. He randomly chooses
20 essays submitted by 180 students. He
records the word count of each one. His
data are shown below.

An English teacher wants to know the mean number of words students included in recent-example-1
User JRiggles
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320

You add all the numbers together then divide by how many numbers there was. In this case all the numbers added to 6405. You divide by 20 because there were 20 numbers. This will get you to 320.25. The closest answer choice would be 320
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