3) The mean can be thought of as the balancing point of a distribution. Accordin

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3) The mean can be thought of as the balancing point of a distribution. According to this description, at what value is the following distribution balanced? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 A) About 20 ppose temperatures and monthly ice cream sales were measured for 100 randomly selected cities. A) Temperature is the explanatory variable and ice cream sales is the response because a city'st B) About 40 C) About 50 D) About 30 4) Su Which variable is the explanatory variable and which one is the response? B) Ice cream sales is the explanatory variable and temperature is the response because the ice cream sales C) Ice cream sales is the explanatory variable D) Temperature is the explanatory variable and ice cream sales is the response because the ice cream sales could explain the amount of ice cream sales could explain the city's temperature. could explain the amount of ice cream sales could explain the city's temperature. and temperature is the response because a city's temperature

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3) The mean of the distribution is about 40. Since it has balanced not at the highest and at the lowest it may be balanced at the mean level. So it may be 40.

4) Here option a) is correct since the temparature is the explinatory variable, where as ice cream sales are the responce variable since for more temparature areas responce to sale ice creams is more and vice versa.

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