Reference no: EM1399809
You are responsible for planning the parking needed for a new 256-unit apartment complex, and you're told to base the needs on the statistic "average number of vehicles per household is 1.7."
(a) Which average (mean, median, mode, midrange) will be helpful to you?
mean median mode midrange
(b) Explain why 1.7 cannot be the median, the mode, or the midrange for the variable "number of vehicles."
Midrange, median, and mode are all numbers containing 0.5 in them. Midrange, median, and mode are all whole numbers. Median and midrange either contain 0.5 or are whole numbers. Mode is a whole number.
(c) If the owner wants parking that will accommodate 77% of all the tenants who own vehicles, how many spaces must you plan for?
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