You are going to sell your house. You are determining what the price should be. To help you, you have collected information of houses that have sold in your neighborhood during the past eighteen months. You checked houses within a four mile radius and here is the information you collected. You are going to base your determination of the price of your house based on the following information. Evaluate and discuss whether the data collected was appropriate and representative of the information that is needed to analyze the problem presented in the problem setting. House House Age Square Feet Selling Price
1 33 1812 $190,000
2 32 1915 $205,200
3 32 1840 $194,000
4 32 1832 $192,000
5 33 1851 $202,000
6 34 2032 $208,600
7 31 1755 $188,200
8 30 1805 $205,000
9 28 1900 $215,000
10 29 1485 $192,000
11 31 1525 $195,000
12 32 1515 $192,200
13 33 1685 $201,300
14 34 1600 $205,400
15 35 1650 $218,000

ANSWER: The data collected is NOT an appropriate representation that can be used to determine how much you should sell your house.

EXPLANATION: A house is evaluated by the contents which were used to build it. For instance a house built with a bricks can not be of the same value with a wood or block house, even though they have the same pattern.

Because the data does not show the values of the contents of the house, which are: walls, pattern, designs, how many stirs, roof, and interior quality, it cannot be used to determine the price you should sell your house.

Also, looking at the data gotten, you can understand that this houses has been sold according to the contents that made up the building, because some old builder were sold more costlier than some new buildings, and some building with a much bigger square feet were sold in a lower price when compared to some buildings with a smaller square feet