Statistics (12th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321755936
ISBN 13: 978-0-32175-593-3

Chapter 2 - Methods for Describing Sets of Data - Exercises 2.48 - 2.70 - Applying the Concepts - Intermediate - Page 59: 2.68a

Answer

- The mean, obtained by adding all observations and dividing with the number of observations is $12.8$ ant species. - The median, representing the score under which we find $ 50\%$ of the observations, is $5$ ant species. - The mode, that is, the score appearing the most number of times in the dataset, is $5$ ant species.

Work Step by Step

Let's import the dataset file into our spreadsheet calculator, and invoke the descriptive statistics feature of the Data Analysis add-on, as illustrated in the screen snip below.
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