Question

.5, 3.2, 3.8, 3.5, 2.8, 4.0
Find the mean absolute deviation. (Round your answer to the nearest hundreth.)

Answer 1

when finding the mean..add all the values and divide it by the total number of your sample.

Answer 2

Whip out your calculator and do the ff:
1. Find the mean of the values. (Call this \(\mu\).)
2. Compute each of the ff: \(\large |0.5-\mu|, |3.2-\mu|, |3.8-\mu|, |3.5-\mu|, |2.8-\mu|, |4-\mu|\).
3. Add these.
That's how you get mean absolute deviation.

Answer 3

Oops. Step 3 should have been "Find the mean of these".

Answer 4

? lost

Answer 5

Where, exactly?

Answer 6

so its 22.3

Answer 7

Hold on, lemme check.

Answer 8

ok

Answer 9

sooooooooo ?

Answer 10

Nope, it's approximately 0.88.
Could you tell me what you did?

Answer 11

i added The Numbers up

Answer 12

can you show me how you got 0.88

Answer 13

Okay. So the mean of the numbers is 2.96667...
And then I get all of the numbers I mentioned in my first post.
Then I got the mean of all these numbers, and that's 0.88

Answer 14

Did You Round It ?

Answer 15

Only for the last part. For everything else, I used all the decimal points.

Answer 16

how do you get the mean of something ?

Answer 17

Add all the values whose mean we want, then divide by the number of the values.
Example: The mean of 1, 3, 5, and 7 is (1+3+5+7)/4=4. Okay so far? :)

Answer 18

Thanks .