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2.7 Exercise 26

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A music school has budgeted to purchase three musical instruments. The school plans to purchase a piano costing $3,000, a guitar costing $550, and a drum set costing $600. The mean cost for a piano is $4,000 with a standard deviation of $2,500. The mean cost for a guitar is $500 with a standard deviation of $200. The mean cost for drums is $700 with a standard deviation of $100. Which cost is the lowest when compared to other instruments of the same type? Which cost is the highest when compared to other instruments of the same type? Justify your answer.

OpenStax Statistics, 2.7 Measures of the Spread of the Data, exercise 26

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