A music website tracked the number of new users per day over 1 week. The number of new users for each day of the 7 days was 38, 43, 45, 50, 51, 56, 67.
a. What is the MAD of the number of new users per day? Round to the nearest tenth.

b. What does the value of the MAD represent?

Question

A music website tracked the number of new users per day over 1 week.  The number of new users for each day of the 7 days was 38, 43, 45, 50, 51, 56, 67.
a.  What is the MAD of the number of new users per day?  Round to the nearest tenth.

b.  What does the value of the MAD represent?

mathmale · Answer

Not everyone would know what you mean by MAD.  To be on the safe side, when using an abbreviation like that, please spell out what the letters stand for.

mrdoodbromanguy · Answer

mean=  mean absolute deviation

mathmale · Answer

I did a quick 'Net lookup for "mean absolute deviation" and obtained the following results.  Hope that at least one of them is helpful to you.

mathmale · Answer

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&q=mean%20absolute%20deviation&oq=mean%20absolute%20deviation&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.728j0j7

mrdoodbromanguy · Answer

thx dude ill give it a shot