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DA0-002 · Question #73

A marketing firm wants to find the average age of its consumers to better promote its products. Given the following dataset: Which of the following is the mean of the consumer ages?

The correct answer is B. 36. The mean is calculated by summing all values in a dataset and dividing by the total number of values.

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Question

A marketing firm wants to find the average age of its consumers to better promote its products. Given the following dataset:

Which of the following is the mean of the consumer ages?

Options

  • A29
  • B36
  • C40
  • D63

How the community answered

(15 responses)
  • A
    7% (1)
  • B
    80% (12)
  • D
    13% (2)

Why each option

The mean is calculated by summing all values in a dataset and dividing by the total number of values.

A29

29 is not the calculated mean of the consumer ages.

B36Correct

To find the mean, you would sum all the consumer ages and then divide by the total number of consumers, resulting in an average of 36.

C40

40 is not the calculated mean of the consumer ages.

D63

63 is not the calculated mean of the consumer ages.

Concept tested: Statistical measures-mean

Topics

#Mean calculation#Average#Descriptive statistics#Central tendency

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