Listed below are the playing times in seconds of songs that

Listed below are the playing times (in seconds) of songs that were popular at the time of this writing. Find the (a) mean, (b) median, (c) mode, and (d) midrange for the given sample data. Is there one time that is very different from the others? 444 239 236 242 242 290 275 229 248 214 258 240 214 261 259 260

Solution

a)The mean is: (444+239+…+260)/16

=259.4375

b)Arrange the data in an ascending order:

214,214,229,236,239,240,242,242,248,258,259,260,261,275,290,444

The median is (242+248)/2=245

c)The modes are 214 and 242.

d)The outlier is 444.