Question

1.) Over the last 5 days, you made the following numbers of sales calls: 8, 7, 9, 5 and 7. On

average how many calls did you make each day?

Answer 1

Average ≈ 7 calls

Explanation:

The average number of calls is the sum of the calls divided by the total number of days.

Thus, we can determine how many calls you made on average by dividing the sum of the calls by 5:

Average number of calls = (8 + 7 + 9 + 5 + 7) / 5

Average number of calls = 36 / 5

Average number of calls = 7.2

Since you can't make a fraction of a call, you make on average about 7 calls each day.