The number of runs batted in that Mark McLemore had in the first 12 years of his major league baseball career are listed below.
102 56 25 9 9 56 165 88 122 150 91 114

(a) Find the mean, median and mode of runs batted in. Round results to the nearest whole number.
(b) Which measure of central tendency best represents the data?

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Answer:

a)[tex] \bar X = \frac{9+9+25+56+56+88+91+102+114+122+150+165}{12}=82.25 \approx 82[/tex]

[tex] Median = \frac{88+91}{2}=89.5\approx 90[/tex]

And the mode on this case would be 9 and 56 since both values are repeated two times, so we will have a bimodal distribution on this case.

b) For this case the measure of central tendecy important would be the mode . Because captures the central tendency accurately.

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case we have the following data:

102 56 25 9 9 56 165 88 122 150 91 114

We can begin the procedure ordering the data on increasing way and we got:

9 9 25 56 56 88 91 102 114 122 150 165

Part a

The mean can be calculated with the following formula:

[tex] \bar X = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^n X_i}{n}[/tex]

And if we replace we got:

[tex] \bar X = \frac{9+9+25+56+56+88+91+102+114+122+150+165}{12}=82.25 \approx 82[/tex]

Since we have 12 observations we can calculate the median as the average between the position 6 and 7 in the dataset ordered and we got:

[tex] Median = \frac{88+91}{2}=89.5\approx 90[/tex]

And the mode on this case would be 9 and 56 since both values are repeated two times, so we will have a bimodal distribution on this case.

Part b

For this case the measure of central tendecy important would be the mode. Because captures the central tendency accurately.