Question

Spencer surveyed five of his friends to find out how many pets they have. His results are shown in the table below. What is the mean number of pets?


Number of Pets
Lara / Cody / Sam / Ella / Maria
2 1 4 3 5


The mean number of pets is ______.

Answer 1

remember, to find the mean

you add up all the numbers
and divide by how many numbers there are

Answer 2

so how many numbers are there?

Answer 3

5 numbers.

Answer 4

Good! Now add all the numbers, what do you get?

Answer 5

15?

Answer 6

Yes!

Answer 7

why 3?

Answer 8

So now the mean is

divide the sum by how many numbers

15 / 5 =

Answer 9

guess she made a mistake in her haste, oops

Answer 10

Oh so the answer to that is 3.

Answer 11

There you go! That's the mean

Answer 12

Also, you can see that the numbers are just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
So... the middle is 3

Answer 13

don't confuse 'em, that's how you find the median

Answer 14

hm

Answer 15

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @AZ
don't confuse 'em, that's how you find the median
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