Mathematics Homework Help

Option 1: Find an article that mentions a new drug that promises an improved survival rate.

Identify whether this rate represents the mean or the median of the data set.

Assess whether that is ideally what you’d want to know for this data.

Provide a specific reason for your answer.

• Option 2: For this option, consider a normal distribution.
• Decide whether you should use the median or mean to best describe the data set.
• Determine whether the standard deviation or the interquartile range are relevant factors.

Briefly discuss in the context of a specific example.

Option 3: Respond to the following questions.

If the median house price is $1.9 million, does that necessarily mean that half of the houses on the block are worth less than $1.9 million and half are worth more?

• How do ties figure in?
• Give an example that includes 8 to 12 data points.