Question

Tessa is investigating the number of strawberries in a 1-pound package. She has 6 packages of strawberries and counts the number of strawberries in each package. Her results follow.
{10,12,14,15,16,17}


What is the mean absolute deviation of her data?

(1 point)
The mean absolute deviation is
.
Remaining Attempts : 3

Answer 1

First find the mean: (10+12+14+15+16+17)/6 = 84/6 = 14.

Absolute deviations from the mean: 4, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3. Sum = 12.

Mean absolute deviation = 12/6 = 2.

The mean absolute deviation is 2.