Lauren is a college sophomore majoring in business. This semesterLauren is takin

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Lauren is a college sophomore majoring in business. This semesterLauren is taking coursesin accounting, economics, management information systems, public speaking and statistics. The sizes of these classes are, respectively, 350, 45, 35, 25, and 40. Find the mean and the median of the class sizes. What is a better measure of Lauren's typical class size - the mean or the median? sizes of these classes are, respectively, 350, 45, 35, 25, and 40. Find the mean and the median of the class sizes. What is a better measure of Lauren's typical class size - the mean or the median? Lauren is a college sophomore majoring in business. This semesterLauren is taking coursesin accounting, economics, management information systems, public speaking and statistics. The sizes of these classes are, respectively, 350, 45, 35, 25, and 40. Find the mean and the median of the class sizes. What is a better measure of Lauren's typical class size - the mean or the median?

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mean =(25+35+40+45+350)/5 = 247.5 median= 40 In this case the median is a better meassure of her typicalclass size. The value of 350 used in computing the mean skewsthe data and is not the best measure of her typical classsize.

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