On a survey, students reported how many minutes it takes them to travel to school.

Question

On a survey, 6

students reported how many minutes it takes them to travel to school. Here are their responses.13, 11, 5, 12, 5, 3

Find the mean travel time for these students.

If necessary, round your answer to the nearest tenth.

minutes

Answer 1

To determine the mean, we need to find the arithmetic average.

Find the sum of the 6 responses. Then divide by 6.

The total is 49. 49 divided by 6 is 8.1666.

The answer rounded to the nearest tenth is 8.2 minutes.