THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

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Essay

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
The following numbers represent the distance,in miles,that randomly selected ten employees of a firm must travel each way to work from home: 6.5,14.8,18.6,6.5,17.4,12.3,1.9,12.9,11.1,and 8.0.
-Calculate the mean number of miles driven by the ten employees.

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