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m/static/nb/uivindex.html?nbld 266536&nbNodeld-84938864;&deploymentld-4881079764186568837399784;&elsBN; 9781 Quiz Chapter 3 Chapter Quiz.03.19 The five-number summary for a set of data is 15, 24, 38, 41, 5s. what is the mean for this data set? O a. 38 O b 40 (o c. 34.6 3 O d. The mean cannot be determined from the information gren. v Hide Feedback Incorrect 100% Cormeer Partially correct Incorrect chapterQuiz.03.19

Solution

Your answer is indeed wrong.

The correct answer is: The mean cannot be determined from the information given.

Recall that: The five-number summary is a descriptive statistic that provides information about a set of observations. It consists of the five most important sample percentiles:

What you have done is, taken the mean of the five values that are provided in the question. They are the five important statistics of the whole data set. To calculate the mean, we need to have all the observations.

I hope my solution solves your query.