Sarina tracks her time spent on homework each night for a week, in minutes. She collects the following times: 51, 60, 25, 15, 20, 5, 35. When she solves for the mean absolute deviation, what number will she use for the divisor? (1 point)

Question

Sarina tracks her time spent on homework each night for a week, in minutes. She collects the following times: 51, 60, 25, 15, 20, 5, 35. When she solves for the mean absolute deviation, what number will she use for the divisor? (1 point)
Responses

30.1
30.1

55
55

7
7

15.9
15.9

GPT 3.5 · Accepted Answer

Sarina will use the divisor of 7, because there are 7 data points - one for each night of the week. Therefore, the correct divisor to use when finding the mean absolute deviation is 7.