A survey of daily dollar sales at each of our stores yielded the following figures:

6,414; 1,550; 2,109; 9,350; 21,828; 4,300; 5,944; 5,722; 2,825; 2,044; 5,481; 5,200; 5,853; 2,750; 10,012; 6,357; 27,000; 9,414; 7,681; 3,200; 17,500; 9,200; 7,380; 18,314; 6,557; 13,713; 17,768; 7,493; 2,771; 2,861; 1,263; 7,285; 28,165; 5,080; 11,622

1. If you were to build a new donut shop, which piece of information would be more valuable: the mode or the mean?
2. Calculate the sample mean.
3. Calculate the sample standard deviation.
4. A shop with daily sales of 8,000 would be how many standard deviations away from the mean?

Donuts Chocolate Sprinkles 200 Vanilla sprinkles 181 Bear Claw 175 Vanilla cake 167 Chocolate 155 Plain 150 Maple bacon donut 136 Long John 122 Cruller 120 Boston Creme 100 50 100 150 200 250