Day
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Temperature
49
55
52
(degrees F)
46
47
42
38
Julia measured the high temperature in her town for one week. Using the chart above, find the mean absolute deviation for the high temperatures. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
Be sure to show your work for furding:
• the mean of the set of data
• the distance of each number from the mean
• the mean absolute deviation
find the mean, m
for each temp t, find |t-m|
take the mean of those differences