The following table gives the distribution of wages in three branches of a project company Daily wages

No. of workers

K£

BRANCH A

BRANCH B

BRANCH C

10 – 20

6

8

7

20 – 30

12

11

7

30 – 40

15

20

18

40 – 50

10

7

10

50 – 60

7

4

8

i. Point out which of the three branches pays the lowest mean wage. Then compute the combined mean.

ii. Would your decision in (a) above change if the modal wage was used instead.

iii. Suppose you were approached by a new employee to recommend which of the three branches should she choose to work? Based on the most popular measure of dispersion in statistics, give her your recommendation.

30 points! here is a you are the new manager at trusty goods wholesale produce. you need to figure out how to adjust the amount of produce in your notes after the events of the day: you got 5 more crates of bananas someone returned 2 crates of apples a worker dropped a crate of grapes (oh no! , you had to throw them out) you sold a crate of bananas you sold 5 crates of apples can you write an expression to describe your day using: "a" for crates of apples "b" for crates of bananas and "g" for crates of grapes? make sure the expression is in simplest form question 2 (3 points) explain your steps using sentences.