Question

How much does the 6 cats weights in pounds.

9,8,11,6,14,10
what is the mean weight of these cats.
and round the answer to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

Add them all up and divide 6 (the number of terms given). The answer is 9.66 or 9.7 rounded to the nearest tenth.

Answer 2

9.6666666667

Explanation:

to find out the mean first we add all the given values.

then sum of the values should be divided by the number of values.

so here, 9+8+11+6+14+10 = 58

now mean = 58/6

= 9.6666666667

the answer has be written in nearest tenth

so we will take decimal place till eleventh place.

here eleventh place is 6 which is greater than 5. so we will add 1 with the digit of previous place that is tenth place.

finally the ans will be 9.6666666667