Using it's concept, it is found that the mean height of the students in the group is of 48 inches.
What is the mean?
The mean of a data-set is given by the sum of all observations in the data-set divided by the number of observations.
In this problem, the 5 observations in inches are given as follows: 49, 47, 46, 45, 53.
Hence the mean is given by:
M = (49 + 47 + 46 + 45 + 53)/5 = 48.
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