Xr04-14 A survey undertaken by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Annual Consumer Expenditure, asks American adults to report the amount of money spent on reading material in 2006. (Source: Adapted from Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2009, Table 664.)

a. Compute the mean and median of the sample.

b. What do the statistics computed in part

(a) tell you about the reading materials expenditures?