Question

Tamar surveyed six friends, asking each how many times he or she had ridden in a helicopter. The numbers of times she recorded were 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, and 8.

What is the mean absolute deviation of the number of times?

Round to the nearest tenth, if needed.


a. 0

b. 2

c. 2.3

d. 2.5

Answer 1

Answer: the answer is c

Step-by-step explanation: i took the test

Answer 2

well, to do this we first need to find the mean of all values.

we need to find the distance of each value from that mean (subtract the mean from each value, ignore minus signs)

Then find the mean of those distances.

so, after we do all of that with the given numbers, our final result would be 2.333333333..... (It goes on) we round it up to 2.3, and viola! the answer is C.