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Exercise 18

Avg difficulty 2.5

In a survey of 12 companies recruiting for recent college graduates, they reported the following numbers of job applicants per job posting:

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  1. Find the mean and standard deviation, including units.

  2. What is the Z score for the company with 143 job applicants per job posting?

Lee et al., Math in Society, §3.4 Summary Statistics: Measures of Variation, Exercise 18

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