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The manager of the local Walmart Supercenter is studying the number of items purchased
by customers in the evening hours. Listed below is the number of items for a sample of 30
customers.

a. Find the mean and the median of the number of items.

b. Find the range and the standard deviation of the number of items.
c. Organize the number of items into a frequency distribution. You may want to review
the guidelines in Chapter 2 for establishing the class interval and the number of classes.
d. Find the mean and the standard deviation of the data organized into a frequency
distribution. Compare these values with those computed in part (a). Why are they
different?