A teacher tracked the amount of time fifth graders in his classed watched TV over a week. He found that the mean amount of time was 11 hours. What can be concluded from this mean?

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Answer 1

The mean is the average. So, the average amount of time a fifth grader watches TV over the course of a week is 11 hours. Now, the mean IS affected by the standard deviation of whatever this data set is. This means that the mean is affected by any outliers.