The demand for the video games provided by Mid-Tech Video Games Inc. has exploded in the last several years. Hence, the owner needs to hire several new technical people to keep up with the demand. Mid-Tech gives each applicant a special test that Dr. McGraw, the designer of the test, believes is closely related to the ability to create video games. For the general population, the mean on this test is 100. Below are the scores on this test for the applicants.

The demand for the video games provided by Mid-Tech Video Games Inc. has exploded in the last several years. Hence, the owner needs to hire several new technical people to keep up with the demand. Mid-Tech gives each applicant a special test that Dr. McGraw, the designer of the test, believes is closely related to the ability to create video games. For the general population, the mean on this test is 100. Below are the scores on this test for the applicants.

95

113

88

93

119

88

111

92

102

9

The president is interested in the overall quality of the job applicants based on this test.

a.	Compute the mean and the median scores for the 10 applicants. (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.)

Mean
Median

b.	What would you report to the president?

Applicants are not better than regular people.

Explanation:

a.

The mean is the total divided by the number of values. Add the values and divide by 10. So, the mean equals 91.0 found by 910/ 10.

To find the median, sort the values and identify the midpoint. The sorted values are: 9, 88, 88, 92, 93, 95, 102, 111, 113 and 119. So the median is the average of the fifth and sixth or (93 + 95)/2 = 94.0.

b.

Since the mean for the general population is 100, these applicants are not better than regular people.