Question

The amount of leaf protein (mg/ g fresh weight) in soybean plants of a particular variety was determined for a sample of six plants, yielding the following data;

6.84

3.3

3.38

0.95

0.85

3.37

Compute the sample mean(average)

Answer 1

Sample mean is the sum of a collection of numbers divided by the count of numbers in the collection.

Sample mean =

sample mean = = 3.115 mg / g