To find the average of a bunch of items (2 or more): . . . Add up all the items. . . . Divide the sum by the number of items. . . . The quotient of the division is their average.
The mean is the average of the numbers. It is easy to calculate: add up all the numbers, then divide by how many numbers there are. In other words it is the sum divided by the count.
To find the average of a set of numbers, add all the numbers together and then divide that total by the number of values. For example, if you have the numbers 4, 8, and 6, the average is 6. This means the average is a single number that represents the overall value of the set.
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