Suppose that the following data represents ages of all tenured faculty members in a certain academic department, and we want to numerically describe the age distribution for this department only:
42, 39, 44, 50, 45, 42, 36, 47, 39, 42, 43, 47
Compute the arithmetic mean age:
? a. 42.5
? b. 43
? c. 46
? d. 42
? e. 39