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MAT-144 Mission Project: Part C Statistical Study Use the following resource to assist you in completing Part C of your Mission Trip | assignment

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MAT-144 Mission Project: Part C Statistical Study

Use the following resource to assist you in completing Part C of your Mission Trip |
assignment. You will also use Mission Project: Part C Worksheet and Part C Data
spreadsheet to complete this assignment.

A friend of yours has recently come back from a mission trip. The mission team has collected |
some data. They need help analyzing this data and because you have just taken a math class and
have been planning your own mission trip, your friend has asked you to help out.
The purpose of the mission trip was to bring clean water to a village in Sierra Leone. When the :
group arrived they took a sample of water from each of 100 randomly selected households
around the village. One of the trip participants is planning to major in biology, so she was put in
charge of analyzing the number of microbes in each water sample. All of this group’s data can 1s
found in the included spreadsheet. :
The group spent the next few weeks digging several wells around the village. The wells each
produced clean water. However, the group was not sure whether the villagers would all use the
wells to get all of their water or if they would continue to use their old water sources too. The :
group decided to take another sample of water from another 100 households one month after the :
wells were dug. To save time, they asked villagers to bring in samples of their water from home.
They accepted the first 100 samples. :
The group’s aspiring biologist who analyzed the data was worried about the integrity of the :
water samples that the villagers brought in themselves. At the last minute, she decided to collect
some samples herself. She only had time to collect 20 samples from random households.
Analyze the data and record the results on the worksheet provided. You will use the results to |
write the report of your analysis of the data:
Once you complete your statistical calculations, prepare a report of your findings. Write a 750-
1,000-word report of your analysis of the data for the mission team. Include the following in
your report:
 

Report why you think that either the mean or the median is a better measure of central
tendency in this case. Is the best measure of central tendency the same for all three samples?