Question

The number of minutes it took Emily to ride to her school for each of the past eight days was 43,79,15,7,38,37,23 and 45, Find the mean number of minutes (Round one decimal place)

Answer 1

Given data:

The given numbers are 43,79,15,7,38,37,23 and 65.

The expression for the mean of the data is,

`\begin{gathered} m=(43+79+15+7+38+37+23+65)/(8) \\ =(307)/(8) \\ =38.375 \\ \approx38.4 \end{gathered}`

Thus, the mean of the given numbers is 38.4.