Question

Ally surveyed 5 classrooms. She wanted to know the number of students in each class who love painting. The data she collected from the 5 classrooms is below.
10, 7, 9, 11, 8

The value that could be the best measure of the center of this data is

Answer 1

The value that could be the best measure of the center of the data is the mean.
mean=\[\frac{Total\space of all\space items }{ Number\space of items }\]
\[\frac{ 10+7+9+11+8 }{ 5 }\]
\[\frac{ 45 }{ 5 }\]
9