Question

What number would you divide by to calculate the mean of 2, 5, 4, and 3?

Answer 1

answer is either 1 or 3.5

Explanation:

first you need to add all of the numbers together then divide by the amount of numbers ( in this case there are 4 numbers)

2+5+4+3=14

14/4=3.5 which gets you the mean

but sometimes it will want you to go a step further and do this-

finding the distance from each number from the mean found like this!

3.5-2=1.5

5-3.5=1.5

4-3.5=.5

3.5-3=.5

then add these together

1.5+1.5+.5+.5=4

then 4 divided by tghe amount of numbers which is 4

4/4=1 so that is taken a step further but the answer is either

Answer 2

To determine the number that you would divide by to calculate the mean:

⇒ must determine the definition of the mean

• Definition of Mean: a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list

Since there are 4 numbers:

⇒ the number would you divide by to calculate the mean is 4

Hope that helps!