Erica sells pottery at fairs every summer. She records the number of items she sells each day. The number of items she sells each day over the course of 8 days is 32, 56, 19, 8, 19, 58, 34, 19. Describe the spread of the number of items Erica sold each day using the mean absolute deviation.

Question

Erica sells pottery at fairs every summer. She records the number of items she sells each day. The number of items she sells each day over the course of 8 days is 32, 56, 19, 8, 19, 58, 34, 19. Describe the spread of the number of items Erica sold each day using the mean absolute deviation.

The mean absolute deviation is approximately 50. The difference between the maximum number of items Erica sold in a day and the minimum number of items Erica sold in a day was 50.

The mean absolute deviation is approximately 14.4. On average, the number of items Erica sold each day is about 14.4 items from the mean.

The mean absolute deviation is approximately 14.4. Erica sold within 14.4 items of the mean each day.

The mean absolute deviation is approximately 30.6. Erica sold around 31 items each day.

Answer 1

The spread of the number of items Erica sold each day is described by the mean absolute deviation of approximately 14.4 items. This means that on average, the number of items Erica sold each day varied by approximately 14.4 items from the mean number of items sold.