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AssignmentMultiple Dropdowns

Discrete Random Variables – Mean

Question 163710 • NC-Math 4

A popular streaming service surveyed all of the students at a school about the number of TV shows they streamed last Friday night, then recorded the results.

Answer
Since the shape of the distribution for number of TV shows streamed is , we expect the median to be the mean number of TV shows streamed. This is confirmed when we calculate the median to be , compare:

roughly symmetric

Since the shape of the distribution for number of TV shows streamed is , we expect the median to be the mean number of TV shows streamed. This is confirmed when we calculate the median to be , compare:

very close to

Since the shape of the distribution for number of TV shows streamed is , we expect the median to be the mean number of TV shows streamed. This is confirmed when we calculate the median to be , compare:

2

Since the shape of the distribution for number of TV shows streamed is , we expect the median to be the mean number of TV shows streamed. This is confirmed when we calculate the median to be , compare:

about the same as the median

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