Question

1. One of Ebony’s stores is a small shop that sells hats and caps.
(a) When Ebony first opened the shop, it sold only 5 hats on the first day. The mean, median, and mode of the prices of those 5 hats were all $6. But the 5 hats did not all cost $6. What could have been the cost of each of the 5 hats? Show your work.

Answer 1

Then I have b

Answer 2

You also need to explain it

Answer 3

well to find mean whe have to add the total all the values and divide them by the total number of values

Answer 4

add all the values*

Answer 5

"mode" is the value that occurs most often in the list of values

Answer 6

ok...

Answer 7

and the Question says that if we take the mean, mode and median for the total price of 5 hats we get 6 as an answer for mean, mode and median while the total price of all the 5 hats isn't 6 so what can possibly be the price of a single hat

Answer 8

so what you'll have to to do is to take any five number and add them and divide by 5 and you should get the answer 6

Answer 9

as 6 is the median and mode we can write cost of hats as

__ 6 6 __ __

Answer 10

total cost is 5 *6 = $30 so the remaining 3 must cost $18

Answer 11

hi "cute mugshot girl". Interesting Google image usage.

Answer 12

I am not quite sure what you mean by so the remaining 3 must cost $18 :)

Answer 13

well 2* 6 = 12 and total cost = 30 So 3 remaining must cost 30 - 12 = $18

Answer 14

ok

Answer 15

There are a number of possibly answers here not just 1 answer

Answer 16

for example

4 6 6 6 8

or 3 5 6 6 10

Answer 17

6 must be the middle number ( the median) and as its the mode it must occur 2 or more times

Answer 18

- those examples add up to 30 so the mean is 6 in each case.

Answer 19

well welshfella tell me who sells the same thing in different prices i mean how can you sell one hat of 4 one of 8 and 6 like you mentioned

Answer 20

it would be all five times 6 divided by 5 to get the mean and as we know that mode is the number the occurs most often so mode will also be 6

Answer 21

hats can be very different . Big, small , average quality superior quality and so on.

Answer 22

hehehe lol but they haven't mentioned anything like that here if i am not wrong

Answer 23

- but the hats did not all cost $6

Answer 24

lol that means the collective price of all the hats isn't 6

Answer 25

if you think 8 is too hightb try this one

5 6 6 6 7

Answer 26

6 6 10 4 4

Answer 27

- well it isnt total price is 30 average is 6

Answer 28

no lol haven't you heard about kis (keep it simple) rule of engineering, keep it simple take all 6, i mean 6 6 6 6 6

Answer 29

No usiki
that cant be right because the median ( middle number) is 6

Answer 30

having the same price is boring though -_-

Answer 31

Shy-boy - read the question - not all hats cost $6

Answer 32

4 4 6 6 10 smh

Answer 33

- yes thats also a possibility

Answer 34

sorry usuki - you were right the first time. You just didnt put them in ascending order. But the costs were OK.

Answer 35

well i have read that but i think what the question says is the collective price of all the 5 hats isn't $6

Answer 36

the thing which makes it confusing is how can a item be sold in different prices specially when the haven't mentioned size or quality of the item

Answer 37

so we need to add leather, cotton, spandex to the hat mix?

Answer 38

they*

Answer 39

well that's a great idea @UsukiDoll

Answer 40

If we are talking about women's hats they can be any price!!