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Suppose that the mean number of chocolate chips in 30 cookies is 19 chocolate chips. Explain what this means.

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Answer: It means that there are 570 chocolate chips in all the 30 cookies

Explanation:

The mean also referred to as the average of a data set is calculated by adding all numbers in a data set and dividing by number of values in the set.

Since the mean number of chocolate chips in 30 cookies is 19 chocolate chips, this means that there are:

= (30 × 19) = 570 chocolate chips in the cookies.

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