USA Today ( May 9, 2006) published the average weekday circulation for the top 20 newspapers in the country. Here are the data for the 6- month period ending March 31, 2006: 2,272,815 2,049,786 1,142,464 851,832 724,242 708,477

a. Compute and interpret the value of the median of this data set.
b. Explain why the median is preferable to the mean for describing center for this data set.
c. Explain why it would be unreasonable to generalize from this sample of 20 newspapers to the population of daily newspapers in the United States. 3.26 The paper €œTotal Diet

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2.272,815 2.049,786 1,142.464 851,832 724.242 708,477 673.379 579,079 513.387 438.722 427, 398,329 398.246 397,288 365,011 362,964 350.457 345,86 343,163 323,031