Find the mean for the following set of data: 10, 3, 5, 6.
Answer
6
Example 2
Find the mean for the following set of data: 12, 14, 15, 15, 15, 17.
Answer
Example 3
Find the mean for the following set of data: 54, 66, 78, 80, 82, 84, 84, 90, 93.
Answer
79
Example 4
Find the mean for the following set of data: 0, 1, 1, 0.
Answer
There are 4 numbers.
Example 5
Find the mean for the following set of data: .
Answer
. All the numbers are the same, so they have already been distributed evenly.
Example 6
Jen has $10, Connie has $15, and Elsa has $2. What is the average amount of money each person has?
Answer
$9
Example 7
Xavier has 5 cats, Joann has 10 cats, Randy has 12 cats, and Betty has 1 cat. On average, how many cats does each person have?
Answer
7 cats. Not that it's our place to say anything, but... seriously, people?
Example 8
Corinne bought three boxes of tea for $7 each and five boxes of tea for $5 each. What was the average price of one box of tea?
Answer
$5.75
Example 9
Tanya plans to paint her house using two different kinds of paint. She needs 10 gallons of paint costing $2 per gallon, and 5 gallons of paint costing $5 per gallon. How much will she spend, on average, per gallon of paint?
Answer
$3
Example 10
Parker has four different piggy banks: one each for pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. If there are twenty coins in each of his four piggy banks, what is the average amount of money contained in each piggy bank?
Answer
$2.05. This little piggy needs more spending cash.
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