During fiscal year 1986, McDonnell Douglas Corporation was second only to Lockheed Missiles & Space Company in net value of U.S. Department of Defense prime contract awards over $25,000 for research, development, test, and evaluation. The work awarded to McDonnell Douglas was done in 20 locations, with a breakdown (millions of dollars) as follows:

a. Determine the mean, median, and mode for these data.

b. In this case, does the mode appear to be a good measure of the typical amount of work that was awarded to a McDonnell division during that year? Why or why not?

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11.2 0.3 103.8 0.2 4.1 $0.7 434.6 6.2 0.3 1.1 2.6 4.9 0.1 0.7 0.1 1.3 0.2 0.2 354.7 0.7