Question

A cereal factory has three machines for dispensing cereal into bags. A test is done in which 8 bags are filled by each machine and the bags are weighed.


The results in grams:



Machine 1: 309, 311.5, 313, 310, 308, 314, 312, 310.5
Machine 2: 310, 309, 314, 311, 309, 314.5, 312.5, 310
Machine 3: 309, 310.5, 313.5, 315.5, 310, 311, 312, 309.5

Which statement is true about the mean output of the three machines?Answer:
a. Machine 1 has the highest
b. Machine 2 has the highest
c. Machine 3 has the highest
d. All three machines have the same mean
e. Two machines sh

Answer 1

You first need to rearrange each of these into chronological order, then locate the mean, median, mode, and range.

Answer 2

help !!! need this for the ged :(

Answer 3

Machine 1: 308,309,310,310.5,311.5,312,313,314
Mean: 311
Median: 311
Mode: 308,309,310,310.5,311.5,312,313,314

Machine 2: 309,309,310,310,311,312.5,314,314.5
Mean: 311.25
Median: 310.5
Mode: 309, 310

Machine 3: 309, 310.5, 313.5, 315.5, 310, 311, 312, 309.5
Mean: 311.375
Median: 310.75
Mode: 309,309.5,310,310.5,311,312,313.5,315.5

Does this help?

Answer 4

YES!!! thanks so much i'm just really bad at math and geomotry this actually helps a lot!

Answer 5

Alrighty, you're welcome!

Answer 6

are you good at geomotry?

Answer 7

No - not really.

Answer 8

Try asking on the chat.

Answer 9

ok thanks again (-: