A Sample of 25 Families Was Asked How Many Pets

Essay

A sample of 25 families was asked how many pets they owned. Their responses are summarized in the following table.

$\begin{array}{|l|r|r|r|r|r|r|}\hline \text { Number of pets } & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\\hline \text { Number of families } & 3 & 10 & 5 & 4 & 2 & 1 \\\hline\end{array}$ a. Determine the mean, the median and the mode of the number of pets owned per family.
b. Describe briefly what each statistic in part (a) tells you about the data.