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PART I: DESCRIBING UNCERTAINTY AND POPULATIONS OF DATA
State
Expenditure
Per Student State
Expenditure
Per Student
WI $9,343.26 KS $7,412.11
MD $9,248.83 SD $7,333.20
MN $9,138.28 NM $7,309.57
ME $9,004.43 MT $7,182.06
IL $8,989.23 AL $6,744.91
OH $8,732.32 TN $6,711.61
WY $8,608.02 ND $6,700.84
IN $8,544.66 LA $6,614.54
OR $8,328.51 AZ $6,595.01
VA $8,298.51 OK $6,491.74
CA $8,167.40 KY $6,403.51
WV $8,162.72 ID $6,257.05
NE $8,157.35 AR $6,117.58
NH $8,107.08 MS $5,669.75
GA $8,086.15 UT $5,571.30

Describe the data in terms of the basic descriptive statistics (mean,
median, and so on). Are the data normally distributed? Why or why
not?

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Finding the mean, median, and mode of a specfic group of data

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The sum of all the student expenditures in all the 30 states=$228,031.53
The mean(average) for all the expenditures is 7.601.051 or $7,601.05 per student expenditure
(you must round to make a dollar amount.)

Mean= (Sum of expenditures/30)

To gather the median first make sure the data is in order from least to greatest.
If there is not a "middle" number in the center, take the 2 middle numbers and find their mean/average.

Data from least to greatest: $5571.30(UT), $5669.75(MS), ...

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