Question

The mean, median and mode of the numbers below are the same,

what is the value of a?
6, 2, a, 7, 4, 9,6

Answer 1

8

Explanation:

Put the numbers in order from lowest to highest. Add all the numbers together. We will ignore a for this step. You should get 34 when adding it all together. Then if you were to add 8 to that 34 you'd get 42. Divide 42 by the amount of numbers you have which is 7. Your answer is 6. Now to make sure 8 is our value. We want to make sure the median is also 6. to find the median you need to have the numbers in order for lowest to highest and find the number in the middle. Don't forget to add your new number 8 into that order. You should get 6 as the median. Therefore our answer is 8