Ice Cream Cone Sales

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Essay

Ice Cream Cone Sales
A neighbourhood ice cream vendor reports the following sales of single-scoop ice cream cones (measured in hundreds of cones) for five randomly selected weeks: 5, 4, 6, 5, and 3.
-The following data represent the sales (measured in $10,000s) of seven real estate salespersons employed by a local agency: 23, 34, 56, 47, 45, 60, and 249. Which measure of centre, the mean or the median, would provide a better measure of the average sales of the company? Give a reason for your answer.

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A socialist advocates for a political and economic system where the production, distribution, and exchange of goods are regulated by the community as a whole or the state, aiming for equal distribution of wealth.

Utopian Socialists

Early 19th-century socialists who envisioned ideal societies where property was communally owned and each person worked according to their abilities and received according to their needs.

Early Socialists

Thinkers and activists in the 18th and 19th centuries who advocated for societal reform towards equality and communal ownership of production, laying the groundwork for modern socialist movements.