Question

A teacher wants to find out the average number of weekly reading hours for her students. She noted the number of reading hours of 5 of her students, as shown below:

7, 8, 6, 5, 9

Which measure of central tendency is most appropriate for this situation and what is its value?

Answer 1

Since the numbers are close together and you do not have any outliers, the mean would be the best measure of central tendency.

The value is

(5+6+7+8+9)/5 = 7