SOLUTION: At General Hospital, nurses are given performance evaluations to determine eligibility for merit pay raises. The supervisor rates the nurses on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the hig

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Question 1122319: At General Hospital, nurses are given performance evaluations to determine eligibility for merit pay raises. The supervisor rates the nurses on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the highest rating) for several activities: promptness, record keeping, appearance, and bedside manner with patients. Then an average is determined by giving a weight of 2 for promptness, 4 for record keeping, 1 for appearance, and 3 for bedside manner with patients. What is the average rating for a nurse with ratings of 2 for promptness, 7 for record keeping, 2 for appearance, and 3 for bedside manner? (Enter your answer to one decimal place.)
Answer by Theo(13342)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the average for frequency data is calculated as follows:

set up a table as shown below:



category         weight       rating      weight * rating  


promptness          2           2                4
record keeping      4           7                28
appearance          1           2                2
bedside manner      3           3                9

total               10          n/a              43



you multiply the rating by the weight to get the weight * rating.

you then add up all the weight * rating scores.

you then add up all the weight scores.

you then divide the sum of the weight * rating scores by the sum of the weight scores to get the average.

the sum of the weight * rating scores was 43.
the sum of the weight scores was 10.
the average was 43 / 10 = 4.3

the weighting factor of each category is equivalent to the frequency of each category.

here's a reference that talks about finding the average of a frequency table.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/mean-frequency-table.html









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