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sasho [114]
3 years ago
13

Jack is a farmer and he wants to know the average weight of all the potatoes in a sack. He randomly selects 10 potatoes and weig

hs them. Their weights, to the nearest ounce are 5, 8, 9, 11, 7, 7, 8, 9, 12, and 7. What is the best estimate of the average weight of all the potatoes in the sack? Round to the nearest ounce.
Mathematics
1 answer:
Maurinko [17]3 years ago
7 0
Jack should remove the maximum and minimum weight potatoes from the average weight of the potatoes to compensate for the extremes. Therefore, we are left with a data set of:
8, 9, 11, 7, 7, 8, 9, 7; so n = 8
The sum of these is 66
The average weight of each potato is:
66/8
= 8 ounces
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