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Nuclear power plants.According to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), 62 nuclear power plants were operating in the United States in 2015. The table at top of the next column lists the 30 states that operate nuclear power

plants, the number of plants in each state, and whether the state has passed legislation supporting nuclear energy expansion (regulated) or not (deregulated).

a.Find the mean, median, and mode of the number of power plants per state. Interpret these values.

b.Repeat part afor the regulated states only.

c.Repeat part afor the deregulated states only.

d.Compare the results, parts band c.What inference can you make about the impact that state regulation has on the number of nuclear power plants?

e.Eliminate the state with the largest number of power plants from the data set and repeat part a.What effect does dropping this measurement have on the measures of central tendency found in part a?

f.Arrange the 30 values in the table from lowest to highest. Next, eliminate the lowest two values and the highest two values from the data set and find the mean of the remaining data values. The result is called a 10% trimmed meanbecause it is calculated after removing the highest 10% and the lowest 10% of the data values. What advantages does a trimmed mean have over the regular arithmetic mean?

State

Status

Number of Power Plants

Alabama

Regulated

2

Arizona

Regulated

1

Arkansas

Regulated

1

California

Regulated

1

Connecticut

Deregulated

1

Florida

Regulated

3

Georgia

Regulated

2

Illinois

Deregulated

6

Iowa

Deregulated

1

Kansas

Regulated

1

Louisiana

Regulated

2

Maryland

Deregulated

1

Massachusetts

Deregulated

1

Michigan

Deregulated

3

Minnesota

Regulated

2

Mississippi

Regulated

1

Missouri

Regulated

1

Nebraska

Regulated

2

New Hampshire

Deregulated

1

New Jersey

Deregulated

3

New York

Deregulated

4

North Carolina

Regulated

3

Ohio

Deregulated

2

Pennsylvania

Deregulated

5

South Carolina

Regulated

4

Tennessee

Regulated

2

Texas

Deregulated

2

Virginia

Regulated

2

Washington

Regulated

1

Wisconsin

Deregulated

1

Short Answer

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a) Mean = 2.066, Median = 2, Mode = 1

b) Mean = 1.82, Median = 2, Mode = 1,2

c) Mean = 2.38, Median = 2, Mode = 1

d) Only the mean varies

e) Mean = 1.93, Median = 2, Mode = 1

f) Trimmed mean = 1.88

Step by step solution

01

Finding the mean, median, and mode of the number of power plants per state

Mean=SumofallpowerplantsNumberofstates=6230=2.066

Therefore, the mean is 2.066.

Arranging the number of power plants per state in ascending order,

(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,5,6)

Median=Sumof15thand16thvalue2=2+22=42

Therefore, the median is 2.

As 1 is repeated maximum times (13) in the data set,1 is the mode.

02

Calculating the mean, median, and mode of the number of power plants in regulated states

Therefore, the mean is 1.82.

Mean=SumofallpowerplantsinregulatedstatesNoofregulatedstate=2+1+1+1+3+2+1+2+23+1+1+2+3+4+2+2+117=3117=1.82

Organizing the number of power plants in regulated states in ascending order,

(1,1,1,1,1,1,1, 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,4)

As the number of plants is 17, the median is 2.

Here we have 2 modes. Because 1 and 2 are both repeated 7 times and 7 is the highest count.

Therefore, the 2 modes are 1 and 2.

03

 Estimating the mean, median, and mode of the number of power plants in deregulated states

Mean=SumofallpowerplantsinregulatedstatesNoofregulatedstate=1+6+1+1+1+313=3113=2.38

Therefore, the mean is 2.38.

To find the median, we will first note down the values in ascending order.

(1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,5,6)

2 is the midpoint of the list of values.

Therefore, the median is 2.

The highly repeated value is 1. Therefore, the model is 1.

04

Comparing the values of regulated and deregulated states.

While the median and the mode are the same for both states, the average number of power plants per state is higher in the deregulated states because of the few states who have a very high number of power plants.

05

Mean, median, and mode without the state with the highest number of power plants

The highest number of power plants (6) is in Illinois. Therefore, we will remove this value from consideration.

Mean=SumofallpowerplantsNoofstates=5620=1.93

Therefore, the new mean is 1.93.

Writing down the values in ascending order,

(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,5)

Mid-point of the values is the 15th value. Therefore, the median is 2.

1 is repeated maximum times, and 1 is the mode.

When the largest value is removed from the data set, the mean value becomes smaller

06

Trimmed Mean

Arranging the table in ascending order and eliminating the highest and lowest two values we get,

Trimmedmean=SumofallpowerplantsNoofstates=4926=1.88

Therefore, the trimmed mean value is 1.88.

A trimmed mean is a better measure than a regular mean because it is not influenced by the outlier values. Sometimes the values on the tails of the distribution affect the regular mean and pull the mean towards the tail. To avoid the impact of a few outliers, a trimmed mean is used

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