Question

Ahmad’s goal is to exercise for a mean of 45 minutes per day for one week. For the first six days of the week, he exercised 35, 40, 37, 42, 45, and 50 minutes. What is the number of minutes Ahmad must exercise on the 7th day to meet his goal for the week?

Answer 1

41.5

Explanation:

On the 7th day Ahmad exercised for 41.5 minutes and if you want to put it simply its 41 minutes.

Answer 2

41.5

Explanation:

To find the mean, your supposed to add all the numbers you have and divide by how many numbers there are. In this question your numbers are 35, 40,37,42,45, and 50.

If you add them all up you get 249. Your next step is to divide by how many numbers there are. Since there are 6, your equation will now be 249 divided by 6. Your answer is now 41.5

So on the 7th day Ahmad exercised for 41.5 minutes. If you need to round then maybe 41 minutes.