Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1133956572
ISBN 13: 978-1-13395-657-0

Chapter 3 - Measures of Central Tendency - Problems - Page 85: 16

Answer

The new score: $X=13$

Work Step by Step

$M=\frac{∑X}{N}$ Before: There are 7 scores whose mean is $5$: $5=\frac{X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7}{7}$ $X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7=5\times7=35$ After: There are 8 scores whose mean is $6$: $6=\frac{X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7+X_8}{8}$ $X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7+X_8=6\times8=48$ $35+X_8=48$ $X=48-35=13$
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