Question

The boys' basketball team at Washington High School has been doing really well so far this year. In the past six games, they've scored the following points. 84, 67, 74, 87, 67, 73 What is the mean absolute deviation of their scores, rounded to the nearest tenth?

40.6
6.8
0.1
5.8

Answer 1

Yep, it's 6.8. Did the math and it's right.

Answer 2

The mean absolute deviation of the boys' basketball team at Washington High School for the past six games is 6.8 when rounded to the nearest tenth. Here are the steps for the solution of the problem. The mean of the following scores is 75.33. Get the absolute value of the difference of each value and the mean then divide it with 6.