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A pet store has 7 cats. Here are their weights (in pounds).

14, 11, 10, 10, 6, 8, 14
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Find the mean weight of these cats.
If necessary, round your answer to the nearest tenth.
pounds

User Vlad Jerca
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To find the arithmetic mean (average) of a group of numbers add the numbers and divide by the total number of items we added.

(12+16+10+8+14+15)/6

= 75/6

= 12.5 (answer is already rounded to nearest tenth)

User Chris Kessel
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