Chapter 3: Problem 25
The mean age of six persons is 46 years. The ages of five of these six persons are \(57,39,44,51\), and 37 years, respectively. Find the age of the sixth person.
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Chapter 3: Problem 25
The mean age of six persons is 46 years. The ages of five of these six persons are \(57,39,44,51\), and 37 years, respectively. Find the age of the sixth person.
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One property of the mean is that if we know the means and sample sizes of two (or more) data sets, we can calculate the combined mean of both (or all) data sets. The combined mean for two data sets is calculated by using the formula $$ \text { Combined mean }=\bar{x}=\frac{n_{1} \bar{x}_{1}+n_{2} \bar{x}_{2}}{n_{1}+n_{2}} $$ where \(n_{1}\) and \(n_{2}\) are the sample sizes of the two data sets and \(\bar{x}_{1}\) and \(\bar{x}_{2}\) are the means of the two data sets, respectively. Suppose a sample of 10 statistics books gave a mean price of \(\$ 140\) and a sample of 8 mathematics books gave a mean price of \(\$ 160\). Find the combined mean. (Hint: For this example: \(n_{1}=10, n_{2}=8, \bar{x}_{1}=\$ 140, \bar{x}_{2}=\$ 160 .\) )
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