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A traffic engineer believes that the duration of a yellow light is three seconds on the average.
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And so a sample of 10 similar intersections was taken.
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And the results are shown here for the duration of the yellow light.
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For part a, we are asked to estimate the mean and standard deviation of this data.
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The mean can be calculated using this formula and the sample standard deviation using this formula.
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Or you can use software to calculate these.
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I've gone ahead and put the sample data in excel in column a.
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So if we want to calculate the sample mean, we can use the average function.
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Select that function.
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Select the sample data as the arguments to the function.
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Hit enter.
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We get a sample mean of 2 .55 seconds.
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For the sample standard deviation, the function we want is the third one shown here highlighted in blue.
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Select that...