Question: How long does it take you to get from home to work? Here are the travel times in minutes for 15 workers in North Carolina,

How long does it take you to get from home to work? Here are the travel times in minutes for 15 workers in North Carolina, chosen at random by the Census Bureau.30201040252010631540430181010

The mean travel time of the 15 North Carolina workers is given below.

x=
x1+x2+ ... +xn
n
=
30 + 20 + ... + 10
15
=
345
15
= 23 minutes

Notice that only 6 of the 15 travel times are larger than the mean. If we leave out the longest single travel time,63minutes, the mean for the remaining 14 people is____________minutes. That one observation raises the mean by_____________minutes.

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