Given: the data set below
[tex]14,15,14,14,13,25,28(000-dollars)[/tex]
To Determine: The median, the mean, and the number of modes
Solution
To get the median, let arrange in ascending order as shown below
[tex]13,14,14,14,15,25,28[/tex]
The median position is
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{N+1}{2}th-position \\ N=7 \\ \frac{7+1}{2}th-position \\ \frac{8}{2}th-position \\ 4th-position \end{gathered}[/tex]
The median is in the 4th position position.
Hence the median is $14 thousands of dollars
(b) The mean can be calculated using the formula below
[tex]\begin{gathered} mean=\frac{\Sigma x}{n} \\ mean=\frac{13+14+14+14+15+25+28}{7} \\ mean=\frac{123}{7} \\ mean=17.57142 \\ mean\approx17.6 \end{gathered}[/tex]
Hence, the mean is 17.6 thousands of dollars
(c) The mode is the number that appeared the most in the data. From the given data set, the number that appeared the most is 14
Hence, the data set has one mode, and the value of the mode is 14 thousands of dollars