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WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY AVERAGE? BY ELIZABETH JAMES AND CAROL BARKIN WE USE THE WORD AVERAGE MOST EVERY DAY FOR MANY DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT WHAT DEOS IT REALLY MEAN? WE TAKE YOU NOW TO THE SLEEPY LITTLE TOWN OF NORMAL CITY, WHERE JILL SLATER AND HER FRIENDS ARE HAVING A MEETING. I CAME UP WITH A GREAT IDEA FOR MY CAMPAIGN. JILLANNOUNCES, WE ARE GOING TO PROVE THAT I AM THE MOST AVERAGE PERSON IN OUR SCHOOL, SO I WILL BE THE BEST PERSON TO REPRESENT EVERYONE. THAT SOUNDS TERRIFIC! HARRIET EXCLAIMS. WITH THAT CAMPAINGN YOU ARE SURE TO BECOME OUR NEXT STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT. SURE DAVID SAYS BUT HOW DO WE PROVE IT? AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY AVERAGE? ASK STEVE. AVERAGE IS A WORD YOU HERE EVERYDAY. YOU MAY KNOW THE BATTING AVERAGES OF YOUR FAVORITE BALL PLAYERS. YOU ARE SURE TO KNOW THAT (C) IS AN AVERAGE GRADE IN SCHOOL, BUT THE AVERAGE SCORE ON THE LAST MATHS CLASS TEST MUST HAVE BEEN 85%. AVERAGES ARE USED TO GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT ALL KINDS OF EVERYDAY THINGS NOT JUST IN SCHOOL), AVERAGES ARE CONVINIENT TOOLS BUT THEY CAN BE MISLEADING IF NOT USED CORRECTLY. IN OUR NEXT INSTALLMENT, JILLS CAMPAINGN COMMITTEE BEGIN TO FIND OUT ABOUT AVERAGES. AS WE RETURN TO SLEEPY LITTLE TOWN IN NORMAL CITY, JILLS CAMPAINGN IS WAKING A FEW PEOPLE UP. HEY JILL WE GOT THE LISTS OF HIGHTS AND WEIGHTS FOR EVERYONE IN SCHOOL, DIVID YELLS. NOW WHAT DO WE DO? ASKS HARRIET. WELL GET SOME PENCILS AND LOTS OF SCRATCH PAPER, JILL REPLIERS. WE HAVE TO ADD ALL THE HIEGHTS AND WEIGHTS AND THEN DIVIDE THE TOTAL BY THE NUMBER OF KIDS IN THE SCHOOL.OHHH NO STEVE GROANS; I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE MORE FUN THAN THAT! AN AVERAGE CAN BE COMPUTED FOR ANY GROUP OF ITEMS THAT HAVE NUMERIC VALUES, MEASUREMENT, QUANTITY AND SCORES. AVERAGES ARE NOMALLY DETERMINED BY ADDING ALL THE NUMERIC VALUES AND DIVIDIND IT BY THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ITEMS.
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