Here is a distribution of 6 observations, sorted in ascending order:
3.7, 8.2, 9.9, 11.3, 15.6, 17.3
The mean of this distribution is 11. What is the value of ?

Question

Here is a distribution of 6 observations, sorted in ascending order:
3.7, 8.2, 9.9, 11.3, 15.6, 17.3
The mean of this distribution is 11. What is the value of ?

anonymous · Answer

wouldnt it be -10.1 since you said add that up ?

anonymous · Answer

Your question makes no sense. What is the value of what?

texaschic101 · Answer

that is what I was trying to figure out

anonymous · Answer

Yes, the mean of those numbers is 11. What else do you need? The median???

texaschic101 · Answer

there is no mode

anonymous · Answer

no it ask for the  value but the value doesn't really make since cause you cant read it

anonymous · Answer

They have to tell you what they want the value of. You can't just say "what is the value?"

texaschic101 · Answer

Is this the entire question...written exactly like what you posted ?

anonymous · Answer

Often they will give you 5 of the 6 observations leaving one blank, then tell you that the mean is 11 and then ask you to figure out the value of the missing observation. But here i see all of your observations.

anonymous · Answer

hello when i tried to ask the question with the value it didn't go through so the value wont show up on here cause its written different..

texaschic101 · Answer

written different ??

anonymous · Answer

yeah like this 6 on top of a 3 looking thing and then under that is like a i=1 and then (x1-x) but there is a line over the second x|dw:1384267575829:dw|