A simple random of pages from Merriam-Webster\'s Collegiate Dictionary was obtained. Listed below are the nmbers of words defined on those pages. Given that this dictionary has 1459 pages with defined words, estimate the total number of defined words in the dictionary. Is that estimate likely to be an accurate estimate of the number of words in the English language? 51 63 36 43 34 62 73 39 53 79 My question was regarding how to find the mean. I calculated the mean and got 53.3, but I do not understand why they multiplyed it to 1459 pages to get the answer 77,765. Solution ok so you got the correct mean in 53.3 This means that the averadge words per page is 53.3. to find the total number of words in the book you multiply the averadge*the number of pages so the answer is 7765 because in the book their may be more or less words but by taking the averadge of the ten pagers your making a guess at what the averadge of all the other pages are..

1. A simple random of pages from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary was obtained. Listed
below are the nmbers of words defined on those pages. Given that this dictionary has 1459 pages
with defined words, estimate the total number of defined words in the dictionary. Is that estimate
likely to be an accurate estimate of the number of words in the English language?
51 63 36 43 34 62 73 39 53 79
My question was regarding how to find the mean. I calculated the mean and got 53.3, but I do
not understand why they multiplyed it to 1459 pages to get the answer 77,765.
Solution
ok so you got the correct mean in 53.3 This means that the averadge words per page
is 53.3. to find the total number of words in the book you multiply the averadge*the number of
pages so the answer is 7765 because in the book their may be more or less words but by taking
the averadge of the ten pagers your making a guess at what the averadge of all the other pages
are.