Question

Each of the 6 cats in a pet store was weighed. Here are their weights (in pounds): 9, 15, 6, 10, 11, 6 Find the median and mean weights of these cats. If necessary, round your answers to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

First, let's put the data set in order from least to greatest.

9, 15, 6, 10, 11, 6 → 6, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15

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Find the median is finding the middle number of a data set.

6, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15

Their is not middle in this data set but to find the median we can find what the middle number is between 9 and 10.

Median is 9.5

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Find the mean by adding all the numbers and dividing it by how many numbers their are.

6 + 6 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 15 = 57

57 / 6 = 9.5

Mean is 9.5

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