Refer to Exercise 50. An English professor deducts 3 points from a student’s essay score for each nonword error and 2 points for each word error. Find the mean of the total score deductions T for a randomly selected essay.

Exercise 50.

Typographical and spelling errors can be either “nonword errors” or “word errors.” A nonword error is not a real word, as when “the” is typed as “teh.” A word error is a real word, but not the right word, as when “lose” is typed as “loose.” When students are asked to write a 250-word essay (without spell-checking), the number of nonword errors X in a randomly selected essay has mean 2.1 and standard deviation 1.136. The number of word errors Y in the essay has mean 1.0 and standard deviation 1.0. Calculate and interpret the mean of the sum S = X + Y.