Question

The number of hours per week that the television is turned on is determined for each family in a sample. The mean of the data is 37 hours and the median is 33.2 hours. Twenty-four of the families in the sample turned on the television for 22 hours or less for the week. The 10th percentile of the data is 22 hours. Based on the given information, determine if the following statement is true or false. Approximately 120 families turned on their televisions for less than 37 hours.

Answer 1

The statement; Approximately 120 families turned on their televisions for less than 37 hours is true.

What is true about the data?

From the task content, since the 10% percentile of the data corresponds to 24 families, it.follws that the total number of families sampled is; 24 × 10 = 240 families.

On this note, after the first 120 data points, the median is determined to be 33.2 hours which is less than the mean. Conclusively, it follows that approximately 120 families turned on their televisions for less than 37 hours.

Hence, the statement is true.

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