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An organic farmer wanted to find out how many eggs a typical hen lays during 1 month. She chose 8 hens at random from the 60 hens she has, then recorded the number of eggs each of the 8 hens laid.

Number of eggs: 9, 9, 7, 11, 10, 11, 11, 8

What is an estimate of the mean number of eggs laid in the population of 60 hens?

10?

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An organic farmer wanted to find out how many eggs a typical hen lays during 1 month. She chose 8 hens at random from the 60 hens she has, then recorded the number of eggs each of the 8 hens laid.

 

Number of eggs: 9, 9, 7, 11, 10, 11, 11, 8

 

What is an estimate of the mean number of eggs laid in the population of 60 hens?

 10?

retireed · Answer

Sure 10 is a good estimate, but why estimate something that is easy to calculate?

     Mean = 9.5  which rounds up to 10

cinnamonbun · Answer

((It's actually just 9.5, I got it wrong))