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Degrees of Freedom Carbon monoxide is measured in San Francisco on five different days,
and the mean of those five values is 0.62 parts per million. Four of the values (in parts per
million) are 0.3, 0.4, 1.1, and 0.7. (The data are from the California Environmental Protection
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a. Find the missing value.

b. We need to create a list of n values that have a specific known mean. We are free to select
any values we desire for some of the n values. How many of the n values can be freely assigned My Textbook Solutions
before the remaining values are determined? (The result is referred to as the number of degrees
offreedom.)

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From the given information, the mean of five values is 0.62 parts per million and four of the
values (in parts per million) are 0.3, 0.4, 1.1, and 0.7. Statistics Chegg tutors
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Let the missing value be , and then mean of the given observations including the missing Edward
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Therefore, the missing observation in the given data is 0.6 parts per million.

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If we know the mean of , values then of the values can be freely assigned before the
remaining values are determined.

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