Statisticseasy · Past Paper
The mean of 10 items was found to be 15. If each item is increased by 2, what is the new mean?
A15
B17
C30
D13
✓ Correct Answer: B — 17
If every value in a dataset is increased by a constant k, the mean also increases by k. So, 15 + 2 = 17.
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