Question

In order to determine the expected mileage for a particular car, an automobile manufacturer conducts a factory test on five of these cars. The results, in miles per gallon are $25.3,23.6,24,8,23,0$ and $24.3$. What is the mean mileage? What is the median mileage?

Answer 1

• The mean mileage is $(25.3+23.6+24.8+23.0+24.3)/5=121/5=24.2$
• Arrange given set in ascending order , we get {$23,23.6,24.3,24.8,25.3$}
• Therefore the median is $24.3$