Students at a major university in Southern California are complaining of a serious housing crunch. Many of the university's students, they say, have to commute too far to school, and university officials should build more housing near campus. The officials' response is to perform a study. The study, reported in the school newspaper, features the followinghistogramsummarizing the commute distances for asampleof72

students at the university:

25

20

15

10

5

0

Frequency

20

21

16

8

5

2

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Commute distance (in miles)

Based on the histogram, estimate themeancommute distance (in miles) for the students in the sample. Carry your intermediate computations to at least four decimal places, androundyour answer to at least one decimal place.