‘Student: Joseph Sauerland Instructor: Alexander Sakharuk Assignment: 3.1 Measures of Central Date: 4/15/15 Course: STATISTICAL METHODS I Tendency ‘Time: 6:28 PM (SAKHARUK - Section 110 - Spring 2015) Book: Sullivan: Fundamentals of Statistics, de A professor has recorded exam grades for 15 students in his class, but one of the grades is no longer readable. If the mean score on the exam was 83 and the mean of the 14 readable scores is 87, what is the value of the unreadable score? ‘The mean of a variable is computed by determining the sum of all the values of the variable in the data set and dividing by the number of observations. TfX1, X25-5 Xq aFe n Observations of a variable from a sample, then the sample mean, X, is found using the formula below. HX RD hee a ‘The mean of the 14 readable scores, Xx, is given by the formula below. #x4 Substitute the known values into the formula for Xpand solve for the sum of the 14 readable values. 87 = 87-14 = x teat tea 1218 = x) tx2+..tX 4 ‘The mean of the 15 total scores, x7, is given by the formula below, = xy tat tx 15 +xu5 te the known values into the formula for x and solve for the sum of the 15 total scores. Xp tate t Xie tXis 15 83-15 = x) 4x24. 445 1245 = xy xp 4... +x 45 ‘The value of the unreadable score is the difference in the two sums, Page |‘Student: Joseph Sauerland Instructor: Alexander Sakharuk Assignment: 3.1 Measures of Central Date: 4/15/15 Course: STATISTICAL METHODS I Tendency ‘Time: 6:28 PM (SAKHARUK - Section 110 - Spring 2015) Book: Sullivan: Fundamentals of Statistics, de ‘Therefore, the value of the unreadable score is 1245 ~ 1218= 27. Page 2