Question

The data below are the frequency of cremation burials found in 17 archaeological sites. a. Obtain the​ mean, median, and mode of these data. b. Which measure of center do you think works best​ here? 85 67 45 47 524 32 31 272 2141 45 390 28 86 424 59 256 143 a. The mean is 275. ​(Round to one decimal place as​ needed.) The median is nothing. ​(Round to one decimal place as​ needed.) Select the correct choice below and fill in any answer boxes within your choice. A. The mode is nothing. ​(Round to one decimal place as​ needed.) B. There is no mode. b. Which measure of center works best​ here?

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) The mean of the data is 275.

(b) The median of the data is 85.

(c) The mode of the data is 45.

(d)  The measure of center that works best​ here will be median.

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given below the frequency of cremation burials found in 17 archaeological sites. Arranging those in ascending order we get;

28, 31, 32, 45, 45, 47, 59, 67, 85, 86, 143, 256, 272, 390, 424, 524, 2141.

(a) The formula for calculating mean for the above data is given by;

     Mean, $\bar X$  =  $\frac{\sum X}{n}$

                =  $\frac{28+ 31+ 32+ 45+ 45+ 47+ 59+ 67+ 85+ 86+ 143+ 256+ 272+ 390+ 424+ 524+ 2141}{17}$

                =  $\frac{4675}{17}$  = 275

So, the mean of the data is 275.

(b) Since, the number of observations (n) in our data is odd (i.e. n = 17) , so the formula for calculating median is given by;

                    Median  =  $(\frac{n+1}{2} )^{th} \text{ obs.}$

                                   =  $(\frac{17+1}{2} )^{th} \text{ obs.}$

                                   =  $(\frac{18}{2} )^{th} \text{ obs.}$

                                   =  $9^{th} \text{ obs.}$ = 85

So, the median of the data is 85.

(c) Mode is that value in our data which appears maximum number of times in our data.

So, after observing our data we can see that only number 45 is appearing maximum number of times (2 times) and all other numbers are appearing  only once.

So, the mode of the data is 45.

(d) The measure of center that works best​ here will be median because there are outliers in our data (means extreme values) and mean gets affected by the outliers.

So, the best measure would be median as it represents the middle most value of our data.