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#1 2007-09-04 11:43:21
- sizerman
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Tryin to find the mean of numbers!
What is the mean of these numbers 5,5,7,6,8,7,5 ? Thanks for any help!
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#2 2007-09-04 12:53:08
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Re: Tryin to find the mean of numbers!
Check out How to Calculate the Mean Value and The Mean Machine (put your values into it)
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#3 2007-09-04 13:54:50
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Re: Tryin to find the mean of numbers!
Averages are so awesome!
Like say we just guess the answer is 6.
Now the three 5's make 3 below by one.
And the two 7's make 2 above by one.
And the one 8 makes 1 above by two.
So 3 below, and 2 above times one AND 1 above by two.
Looks like 3 below versus 4 above.
So 6 is not exactly the answer.
Very interesting indeed.
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#4 2007-09-04 21:43:40
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Re: Tryin to find the mean of numbers!
That's a very useful method for making means a bit easier to find. I forgot what its name is though.
John has found that if all the numbers were 6 less than they are, then they would add up to 1 and so their average would be 1/7. Now just put the 6 back in and now we know that the average we're looking for is 6 1/7.
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#5 2007-09-05 10:14:24
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Re: Tryin to find the mean of numbers!
Cool!! Now add another 6 into the list to average.
Then you get 6 and 1/8. 49/8, yup, works.
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#6 2007-09-05 12:42:30
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Re: Tryin to find the mean of numbers!
Well, averages don't exist in real life... especially non-natural numbers. But all the same, averages are very interesting
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#7 2017-02-19 15:19:22
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Re: Tryin to find the mean of numbers!
Well, averages don't exist in real life... especially non-natural numbers. But all the same, averages are very interesting
What did you mean that averages don't exist in real life?
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