Each of 16 students measured the circumference of a tennis ball by four different methods, which were: method a: estimate the circumference by eye. method b: measure the diameter with a ruler, and then compute the circumference. method c: measure the circumference with a ruler and string. method d: measure the circumference by rolling the ball along a ruler. the results (in cm) are as follows, in increasing order for each method: method a: 18.0, 18.0, 18.0, 20.0, 220, 220, 225, 23.0, 24.0,24.0,25.0,25.0, 25.0,25.0,26.0,26.4.method b: 18.8, 18.9, 18.9, 19.6, 20.1, 20.4, 20.4, 20.4, 204,205, 21.2. 220,220, 220,220,23.6.method c: 20.2, 20.5, 20.5, 20.7, 20.8, 20.9, 210, 210,210,210, 210, 215,21.5,21.5,215,216.method d: 20.0, 20.0, 20.0,-20.0, 20.2, 20.5, 20.5, 20.7, 207,207, 210, 21.1, 215, 216, 221,223.a. compute the mean measurement for each method. b. compute the median measurement for. each method. c compute the 20% trimmed mean measurement for each method.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Data given

Assuming the following data:

Method A: 18.0, 18.0, 18.0, 20.0, 22.0, 22.0, 22.5, 23.0, 24.0,24.0,25.0,25.0, 25.0,25.0,26.0,26.4

Method B: 18.8, 18.9, 18.9, 19.6, 20.1, 20.4, 20.4, 20.4, 20.4,20.5, 21.2. 22.0,22.0, 22.0,22.0,23.6

Method C: 20.2, 20.5, 20.5, 20.7, 20.8, 20.9, 21.0, 21.0,21.0,21.0, 21.0, 21.5,21.5,21.5,21.5,21.6

Method D: 20.0, 20.0, 20.0,-20.0, 20.2, 20.5, 20.5, 20.7, 20.7,20.7, 21.0, 21.1, 21.5, 21.6, 22.1,22.3.

Part a

The sample mean is defined as:

If we apply this formula for the four methods we got:

Part b

Since the total number of points for each method is 16 and this is an even number we need to calculate the median as the average between the 8th and the 9th position of the data ordered from the smallest to the largest. If we do this we have that:

Part c

The trimmed mean by 20% means that we need to calculate removing the 20% from each of the tails, the 20% of 16 is 3.2, so we need to remove 3 observations from both ends of the data like this:

Method A: 20.0, 22.0, 22.0, 22.5, 23.0, 24.0,24.0,25.0,25.0, 25.0

Method B: 19.6, 20.1, 20.4, 20.4, 20.4, 20.4,20.5, 21.2. 22.0,22.0

Method C: 20.7, 20.8, 20.9, 21.0, 21.0,21.0,21.0, 21.0, 21.5,21.5

Method D: 20.0 20.2, 20.5, 20.5, 20.7, 20.7,20.7, 21.0, 21.1, 21.5.

If we calculate the mean for each method we got:

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