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?

Answer 1

Its the average

Answer 2

do you just subtract the greatest from the least?

Answer 3

Nope i just saw what it seemed like the answer and calculated the average, turned out it was right
Average of a set of numbers is the sum of all, divided by the # of items
\[\frac{3.7+8.2+9.9+11.3+15.6+17.3}{6}=11\]

Answer 4

oh okay , thanks so much!