Question

Find and interpret the mean absolute deviation of the data. Round your answers to the nearest tenth. If necessary 101.5 98.7 95.4 92.3 109.8 104.7

Answer 1

Answer:

$\bar X = 100.4$

And we can calculate the deviations from each value like this:

$|101.5-100.4 |=1.1$

$|98.7-100.4 |=1.7$

$|95.4-100.4 |=5.0$

$|92.3-100.4 |=8.1$

$|109.8-100.4 |=9.4$

$|104.7-100.4|=4.3$

And the mean absolute deviation would be:

$MAD =\frac{1.1+1.7+5.0+8.1+9.4+4.3}{6}= 4.93$

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case we have the following dataset given:

101.5 98.7 95.4 92.3 109.8 104.7

We can calculate the mean with the following formula:

$\bar X =\frac{\sum_{i=1}^n X_i}{n}$

And replacing we got:

$\bar X = 100.4$

And we can calculate the deviations from each value like this:

$|101.5-100.4 |=1.1$

$|98.7-100.4 |=1.7$

$|95.4-100.4 |=5.0$

$|92.3-100.4 |=8.1$

$|109.8-100.4 |=9.4$

$|104.7-100.4|=4.3$

And the mean absolute deviation would be:

$MAD =\frac{1.1+1.7+5.0+8.1+9.4+4.3}{6}= 4.93$