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The rainfall (in mm) in a city on 7 days of a certain week was recorded as follows:

DayMonTueWedThursFri Sat SunRainfall0.012.22.10.020.55.51.0(in mm)

(i) Find the range of the rainfall in the above data.

(ii) Find the mean rainfall for the week.

(iii) On how many days was the rainfall less than the mean rainfall? [4 MARKS]

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Solution

Range: 1 Mark
Mean: 2 Marks
Answer: 1 Mark

(i) Range = Highest observation - Lowest observation

Range = 20.5 - 0.0 = 20.5

(ii) Mean=Sum of all observationTotal number of observation

Mean=0.0+12.2+2.1+0.0+20.5+5.5+1.07

Mean=41.37=5.9

(iii) On Mon, Wed, Thurs, Sat, and Sun the rainfall was less than 5.9 mm.

On 5 days the rainfall was less than the mean rainfall.


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