Question

Suppose that a company claims that its boxes of breakfast cereal contain 16 ounces of cereal on average, with a standard deviation of 0.5 ounces. if you took a sample of 50 boxes of cereal, what would be the expected mean amount of cereal per box in the sample?
A. 18 ounces
B. 15 ounces
C. 17 ounces
D. 16 ounces

Answer 1

Answer:

The mean would be 16 oz since it stated that their boxes of cereal "contain 16 ounces of cereal on average"

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The term average is synonymous to the arithmetic mean. 

It is the derived value from the sum of a set of quantities divided by the number of quantities in a set.

Since the average is 16 ounces and it is equal to the mean, then, the mean is also D. 16 ounces