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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Find the mean of the data shown in the stem-and-leaf plot.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

easy

OpenStudy (anonymous):

wait do you want the whole data or

OpenStudy (anonymous):

is there any answer choices?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

row nine mean is = 2.8

OpenStudy (anonymous):

the mean of the whole thing is 10.863157894737

OpenStudy (anonymous):

row 10 mean is = 5.6

OpenStudy (anonymous):

No, I know the answer and there is no answer choices, but i kept getting the wrong answer. I want to know how to work it out. I got 3.85, but it's actually 3.44

OpenStudy (anonymous):

your wrong bee

OpenStudy (anonymous):

first do you even know what mean is?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Mean is find the sum of the entire numbers and dividing it by the amount of numbers.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

*finding

OpenStudy (anonymous):

how am I wrong?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

its for all of them 20.397

OpenStudy (anonymous):

no you're correct. now add all of them and subtract the amount of numbers there is.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

beacause you add all of them then divide by how many number there are

OpenStudy (anonymous):

acool you're confusing me

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i know that.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

add all the decimals?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@punkrockaflmao

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yes even the decimals

OpenStudy (anonymous):

its not hard you just add them like regular numbers

OpenStudy (anonymous):

and the mean of the whole graph was this 20.396666666 but 5 and up is you add one and 5 and down it stays the same so i add one then it becomes 20.397

OpenStudy (anonymous):

no, they're actually decimals. You see in the bottom it says 9|1 = 9.1 not 91

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Acoolhotbabe; I know what your doing. This isn't the same 'mean' in middle school. There's a different way of doing it with different answers..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

|dw:1430259394948:dw| its simple as that

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