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Question

A store that specializes in maternity clothes tracks the sales of black shirts for five days. The raw data for the sales of skirts, indicated by the skirts size sold, is shown below.

Answer 1

Order the dataset:

6 6 8 8 8 8 10 10 10 10 10 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 14 16 16 16 16 16 18 20 22.

The median is 12.

The mean is (2(6)+4(8)+5(10)+8(12)+14+5(16)+18+20+22)/28=12.29.

The mode is 12.

The median, the mode and the mean indicate that, on average, women chose size 12 in the black skirt.