Problema Solution
Hammie is in the 6 th
6th
grade and weighs 106 pounds. His quadruplet sisters are tiny babies and weigh 5, 5, 6, and 8 pounds. Which is greater, the average (mean) weight of these five children or the median weight, and by how many pounds?
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The median of 5,5,6,8,106 is 6.
The average of the weights is summed and divided by 5 and then we subtract 6 from the average to determine by how many pounds the median and the average differ.
((5+5+6+8+106)/5)-6
20
The average weight of these children is 20 pounds more than the median.