While at summer camp, Mike asked a random camper from each of the 12 cabins how many siblings he or she had. The results below display the responses.

3, 2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 1

If there are 48 campers altogether, use Mike’s data to infer the mean of the population. What is the mean number of siblings for the population rounded to the nearest unit?

Question

While at summer camp, Mike asked a random camper from each of the 12 cabins how many siblings he or she had. The results below display the responses.

3, 2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 1

If there are 48 campers altogether, use Mike’s data to infer the mean of the population. What is the mean number of siblings for the population rounded to the nearest unit?

Mercury · Answer

mike will assume the mean of the sample is representative of the total population mean
so you just have to find the mean of the 12-camper sample
to take the average of some set of (n) numbers, add them up and divide by n