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: 19

Answer

The new value is $25$

Work Step by Step

$M=\frac{∑X}{N}$ One of the scores will be changed. Since, the position of this score in the sum makes no difference, let's name this score as $X_9$. Before: There are 9 scores whose mean is $20$: $20=\frac{X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7+X_8+X_9}{9}$ $X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7+X_8+X_9=20\times9=180$ $X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7+X_8+7=180$ $X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7+X_8=173$ After: There are 9 scores whose mean is $22$: $22=\frac{X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7+X_8+X_9}{9}$ $X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7+X_8+X_9=198$ $(X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4+X_5+X_6+X_7+X_8)+X_9=198$ $173+X_9=198$ $X_9=25$
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