Maddie has various playlists on her MP3 player. The 8 playlists contain the following numbers of songs:

Question

6 songs6 songs8 songs5 songs5 songs6 songs5 songs7 songs
What is the mean number of songs?

Answer 1

To find the mean number of songs in Maddie's playlists, we first need to sum the number of songs in all the playlists and then divide by the total number of playlists.

The numbers of songs in the playlists are: 6, 6, 8, 5, 5, 6, 5, 7.

Now, let's calculate the total number of songs:

\[ 6 + 6 + 8 + 5 + 5 + 6 + 5 + 7 = 48 \]

Next, we count the number of playlists, which is 8.

Now we can find the mean:

\[ \text{Mean} = \frac{\text{Total number of songs}}{\text{Number of playlists}} = \frac{48}{8} = 6 \]

Thus, the mean number of songs in the playlists is 6.