Question

The low temperature in degrees Fahrenheit for 5 days was – 5, – 7, – 2, 2, and – 3. What was the average low temperature for those days? (Please explain it in detail)

Answer 1

-3

Explanation:

To find the average of different numbers, first you add them all up. So -5+-7+-2+2+-3+=-15. Then, you divide the sum of all the numbers by the amount of numbers there were. So in this case, there were 5 numbers so we would divide the sum of all of them by 5. So now we do -15/5=-3.

Another example of finding the average of numbers is 15+4+10+9+3+1. So first we add them up and we get 42, then again, we divide by the amount of numbers there are. So we do 40/6 and we get 7, so the average is 7.

I hope this helped.