For the 146 life expectancies in Exercise 15, a) Which would you expect to be larger: the
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For the 146 life expectancies in Exercise 15,
a) Which would you expect to be larger: the median or the mean? Explain briefly.
b) Which would you report: the mean or the median? Explain briefly.
Data From Exercise 15
Here are the life expectancies at birth in 190 countries (2014) as collected by the World Health Organization.
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Countries 40 30 20 10 48 58 68 Life Expectancy at Birth 78
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