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Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012

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Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL

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A building contractor has built a large number of houses of about the same size and value. The contractor claims that the average value of these houses exceeds $65, 000. A real estate appraiser randomly selected 5 of the new homes built by the contractor and assessed their values as $64, 500, $67,000, $66,000, $65,000 and $65, 500 Do the five appraisals support the building contractor's claim regarding the mean value of his houses? Use a level of significance of .05.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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