Determine the average amount of time

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In 1984 the country of Morocco in an attempt to determine the average amount of time that tourists spend in that country on a visit tried two different sampling procedures. In one, they questioned randomly chosen tourists as they were leaving the country; in the other, they questioned randomly chosen guests at hotels. (Each tourist stayed at a hotel.) The average visiting time of the 3000 tourists chosen from hotels was 17.8, whereas the average visiting time of the 12,321 tourists questioned at departure was 9.0. Can you explain this discrepancy? Does it necessarily imply a mistake?

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