how do you work out the average of somethink?

Answer 1

Add up all of the somethinks and divide by the number of somethinks. That's the ansa.

Answer 2

Add all the individual numbers together and divide the total by the number of entries. An example will make it clear:

To calculate the Average of 3 numbers: 2, 4 and 6.
Add them. The total is 2+4+6 = 12
Divide this by the number of items, in this case 3
12 / 3 = 4

So, 4 is the average of 2, 4 and 6.

Let us do another example. Find the average weight of 5 people. The individual weights are 200, 125, 235, 156, 190 pounds.
The sum of 200+125+235+156+190 = 906 pounds (Check with a calculator or use a spreadsheet like MS Excel)

906 is to be divided by the number of people, 5.

906 / 5 = 181.2 pounds

See that the answer is not an integer though the individual numbers are integers.

If some of the numbers have negative signs before them, they need to be subtracted. An example:

Average of the following numbers, 1, -4, 5, -7, 8 (positive sign is optional. If negative sign is not there before a number, it is treated as positive).

Addition of the numbers gives (1 - 4 + 5 - 7 + 8) = 3 (Check)

Division by the numbers of items 5 gives
Average = 5 / 3 = 0.6

I am sure you got an idea now. If you want, you can work out some examples and put them here as questions for me to check them. OK?

Answer 3

Add up all the numbers and divide by the number of numbers you have. For example, the average of 12, 13, 14, 5 would be
12 + 13+ 14+ 5 = 44
44 / 4 = 11

Answer 4

Mean average - add the numbers and divide by the quantity. eg 4 5 6 total 15 divide by 3 = 5.

Median average - the number that falls in the middle eg 3 4 6 9 19 the median would be 6

Modal - the number that occurs most often. eg 4 5 5 8 9 the modal average would be 5.

Answer 5

Average means different things to different people as there are more than one way to reach an average. Using wages as an example there are three different ways that come to mind, although there are probable more.

1. Take the total wage bill and divide it by the number of workers= average wage - this may be £100 per week.

2. Fine a wage where half the works get more than this sum and half get less = average - this might be £120 per week.

3. Find the wage that the majority of workers get = average - this might be £140 per week.

As you can see we have reached an average in each case but the average figure is different each time.

Remember: There are Lies. Dame Lies and Statistics.

Answer 6

Somethink?

SOMETHING!!!!!!

You add up all the somethings and then divide by the number of somethings.

Answer 7

Add the items together then divide by the number of items you had. For instance, if you had 3 baskets of eggs, one with 7 in it, one with 5 in it and one with 12 in it, add the total number of eggs you have, then divide by the number of baskets.

24 eggs total divided by 3 baskets, your average is 8 eggs per basket.

Answer 8

Take the total sum and divide by the number of parts...

Answer 9

SomeTHING, someTHING