Question

Can someone help me? I figured out part B however, I am struggling with part A and I would be so happy if any of you helped me. Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Answer:  262,785

Note: you may need to delete the comma

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Explanation:

The info "5 months" is never used to compute the mean. We could easily replace it with "6 months" or "7 months" or any stretch of time, and still get the same answer. So we'll ignore this value.

What we'll do is add up the 21 items given to us, and then divide by 21.

Because there are so many values, and it's easy to get lost, I'm going to add up across the rows

• Row One: 256,229+253,657+218,747+246,163+235,626+288,694 = 1,499,116
• Row Two: 316,265+196,721+319,620+285,077+215,152+253,291 = 1,586,126
• Row Three: 315,011+199,901+265,443+291,806+303,556+215,359 = 159,1076
• Row Four: 258,554+293,658+289,935 = 842,147

Those subtotals then add up to this

1,499,116+1,586,126+1,591,076+842,147 = 5,518,465

This is the same as adding up all 21 values.

Finally, we divide that sum over 21 as there are 21 values in this list

(5,518,465)/21 = 262,784.047619048

That value then rounds up to 262,785

If your teacher just wanted things to the nearest whole number (without rounding up), then the answer would be 262,784

Side note: using a spreadsheet program would probably be the most efficient/fastest method for this type of problem.