How do I calculatethe average hour that the average person showed up on?

[darkside11]

Help me solve this.If people show up to an event at certain hour.


Hours: People:
0-1 5
1-2 10
2-3 0
3-4 1
4-5 6


How do I calculatethe average hour that the average person showed up on?

 

[Harry_the_cat]

Help me solve this.If people show up to an event at certain hour.


Hours: People:
0-1 5
1-2 10
2-3 0
3-4 1
4-5 6


How do I calculatethe average hour that the average person showed up on?

1. Did you mean "Help me solve this please?"
2. Use the insert table format to make your table readable.
3. What attempt have you made so we can see what you don't understand?

 

[Harry_the_cat]

1. Did you mean "Help me solve this please?"
2. Use the insert table format to make your table readable.
3. What attempt have you made so we can see what you don't understand?

Admin - please let me know if it is not my place to make comments like this. I just can't help myself sometimes!!

 

[darkside11]

1. Did you mean "Help me solve this please?"
2. Use the insert table format to make your table readable.
3. What attempt have you made so we can see what you don't understand?

Hours:	People:
0-1	5
1-2	10
2-3	0
3-4	1
4-5	6

Hopeful that is better. Yes I need look for the mean hours. I am not sure how to calculate it since number of people arrive each hour is different.

 

[j-astron]

Admin - please let me know if it is not my place to make comments like this. I just can't help myself sometimes!!

I'm not a moderator, but I imagine that it's fine to

1) Encourage politeness and make posters realize that people are giving generously of their free time to help them
2) Supply information about forum tools that would help posters make their queries more readable
3) Enforce established forum rules, and make it clear that we won't do people's homework for them, because that defeats the purpose of them studying math.

I don't see anything negative here

 

[Steven G]

Help me solve this.If people show up to an event at certain hour.


Hours: People:
0-1 5
1-2 10
2-3 0
3-4 1
4-5 6


How do I calculatethe average hour that the average person showed up on?

1st you need to figure out how many people there are. Then add up all the hours for all the people. Then divide.

 

[Dr.Peterson]

Help me solve this.If people show up to an event at certain hour.


Hours: People:
0-1 5
1-2 10
2-3 0
3-4 1
4-5 6


How do I calculate the average hour that the average person showed up on?

We'll need to know the context of the question, and anything you have been told about how to interpret it. For some purposes, you would want the median, for others the mean. If it is for a class, you should have been told how to deal with issues like "binning" of data (classes of hours rather than a specific time for each individual).

If they want the mean of grouped data, then you are probably expected to use the midpoint of each class when you add up the hours.