The mean of data set A is 42. The mean of data set B is 47. The mean absolute deviation (MAD) of both data sets is 2.5. What is the difference of the means as a multiple of the MAD? The difference of the means is times the MAD

For a science project, a high school research team conducted a survey of local air temperatures. based on the results of the survey, the found that the average temperatures were around 10 degrees higher than expected. this result was wrong. the trouble with the survey was that most of the locations were exposed to direct sunlight and located over asphalt or sand, which resulted in higher temperatures than normal. this is a classic example of an error in which phase of inferential statistics?