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Question

The number of apples produced per tree in Zara’s orchard is 125, 198, 209, 213, 101, 178. What is the mean absolute deviation of the dataset? Round to the nearest tenth.

38.4

Answer 1

To find the mean absolute deviation, you add up how far each number is from the mean (which is 173), then divide by how many numbers there are (which is 6). So it's like figuring out how spread out the numbers are from the middle number. So, the mean absolute deviation is 38.4.