
Students investigated the prices in dollars of litre bottles of a certain drink at shops in a town and at shops in surrounding villages. Denoting the town prices by and the village prices by the students' data are summarised by the totals and
Find the mean price of litre of this drink at all the shops at which the students collected their data.


Important Questions on Measures of Central Tendency
The masses, of objects are such that Find the value of and state what it represents.
carats, given that carat is equivalent to milligrams

The total mass of gold extracted from a mine is denoted by which is measured in grams. Find an expression in for the total mass in:
carats, given that carat is equivalent to milligrams

The total mass of gold extracted from a mine is denoted by which is measured in grams. Find an expression in for the total mass in:
kilograms.



The wind speeds, miles per hour , were measured at a coastal location at midday on consecutive days and are presented in the following table.
Speed | ||||
No. days |
Abel wishes to calculate an estimate of the mean wind speed in kilometres per hour He knows that a distance of miles is approximately equal to
Explain how Abel can calculate his estimate without converting the given boundary values from miles per hour to kilometres per hour.

The wind speeds, miles per hour , were measured at a coastal location at midday on consecutive days and are presented in the following table.
Speed | ||||
No. days |
Abel wishes to calculate an estimate of the mean wind speed in kilometres per hour He knows that a distance of miles is approximately equal to
Use the wind speeds in mph to estimate the mean wind speed in

Given that values of are such that find and find the value of such that
