• Review this week's Learning Resources, focusing in particular on the Descriptive Statistics section with resources on defining and calculating averages, mean, median, and mode.
• Call at least 10 convenience stores and/or grocery stores in your area and ask for the price of a pack of cigarettes. It can be for any brand, but make sure that the prices are all for the same-sized pack of the same brand. As an alternate, you can look up prices online or visit physical locations.
• From those data, calculate the average cost of a pack of cigarettes in your area for the brand you chose.
• Calculate the average cost per year for a one-pack-per-day smoker in your area.
• Review the Academic Writing Expectations for 2000/3000-Level Courses, provided in this week's Learning Resources. Po st a 150- to 225-w ord (2- t o 3-para graph) explanation of how the information from calculating the average costs of a product can be used by businesses and professionals. In your explanation, do the following:
• Include your data set and the results from your calculations.
• Explain how at least one of the following might use the information from this analysis: retailers, suppliers, health care professionals, public health professionals, or those from another business or profession.
• Explain why it was important to summarize the prices, instead of just calling one retailer for the price? Would the mean or the median be a more representative number, given your data?
• To support your response, be sure to reference at least one properly cited scholarly source.