Twenty-Eight Applicants Interested in Working for the Food Stamp Program

question 44

Short Answer

Twenty-eight applicants interested in working for the Food Stamp program took an examination designed to measure their aptitude for social work. A stem-and-leaf plot of the 28 scores appears below, where the first column is the count per branch, the second column is the stem value, and the remaining digits are the leaves.
a. What is the median score?
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b. What is the sample mean for this data set?
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c. What is the value of the sample standard deviation?
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d. What is the range of this data?
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Constraints

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Feasible Region

The set of all possible points that satisfy the constraints of a particular problem, used in optimization to identify the best solution.

Constraints

Limitations or restrictions that impact the options available in decision-making or process development.

Feasible Region

The set of all possible points that satisfy the constraints of an optimization problem, representing viable solution spaces.