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Two employees are counting the number of broken eggs they findin the large 18 packs of eggs at the store they work at. The firstemployee records the following numbers of broken eggs in eachpack:

0,0,1,1,1,1,1,2,2

(a) What is the median number of broken eggs in a pack?

(b) What is the mean number of broken eggs in a pack?
(c) What is the standard deviation of the number of broken eggs ina pack?

Suppose the second employee reports checking 35 more packs, andfound every single pack had 1 broken egg. For the next questions,we will analyze the data of both employees combined (so the abovenumbers, together with 35 more entries of 1). You don’t need tocompute the following statistics, but you need to compare them tothe answers from parts a, b, and c with only the first employee’snumbers.

(d) How will the new information from the second employee changethe mean? Why?

(e) How will the new information from the second employee changethe standard deviation? Why?

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a The median is the middle number in a sorted list ofnumbers So to find the median we need to place thenumbers in    See Answer
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