SOLUTION: A sample of purchases at the local convenience store has resulted in the following sample data, where x = the number of items purchased per customer and f = the number of customers

Question 610163: A sample of purchases at the local convenience store has resulted in the following sample data, where x = the number of items purchased per customer and f = the number of customers.
x 1 2 3 4 5

f 7 17 8 8 7
What does the 17 stand for in the above table?
Find the midrange of items purchased.
How many items were purchased by the customers in this sample?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A sample of purchases at the local convenience store has resulted in the following sample data, where x = the number of items purchased per customer and f = the number of customers.
x 1 2 3 4 5
f 7 17 8 8 7
What does the 17 stand for in the above table?
17 of the customers purchased 2 items.
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Find the midrange of items purchased.
Lower range: 7*1+17*2+8*3 = 65
Upper range: 7*5+8*4*8*3 = 91
Midrange of items purchased is 3
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How many items were purchased by the customers in this sample?
Total = 7*1 + 17*2 + 8*3 etc.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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