Question

To find out approximately how many hours its residents are spending playing cards at a senior retirement home, the recreation director conducts a random survey. The table below shows the number of hours per week these randomly selected seniors play cards.

Hours Seniors Play Cards
Senior Citizen Hours Played
Joe 12
Mary 3
Bert 5
Frank 9
Elizabeth 11
Janet 4

What is the estimated number of hours all seniors at this retirement home play cards, the population mean, based on the sample and rounded to the nearest whole hour?
7 hours
8 hours
9 hours
10 hours

Answer 1

@Jacobbenvenutty

Answer 2

just in case you cant understand the question i put a picture

Answer 3

thank you,
First off do you know how to find the mean?

Answer 4

you welcome and honestly no :/

Answer 5

basically the "mean" is the "average." in order to solve this all you have to do is add up all of the numbers on the table, then divide that number by how many numbers there are

Answer 6

oh okay so 7.3333?

Answer 7

Perfect! so which answer is most closely related, or rounded?

Answer 8

A. 7 hours

Answer 9

Very good, that is your answer

Answer 10

thank you! next question? :'/

Answer 11

I'm a little busy at the moment, but I will look at your next question if I think it can be solved fairly quickly ;)

Answer 12

Go ahead and link me to your next post

Answer 13

okok thats fine ill post it rn to show you! thanks :))))