The mean of a set of decimals

Difficulty Starter · Set r8dkgz

Give each mean to two decimal places.

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1
Find the mean of 2.10, 1.45, 0.05.
2
Find the mean of 6.35, 0.05, 0.05.
3
Find the mean of 5.00, 0.05, 0.05.
4
Find the mean of 3.35, 2.75, 0.05.
5
Find the mean of 4.70, 0.05, 0.05.
6
Find the mean of 0.80, 2.90, 0.05.
7
Find the mean of 1.60, 2.85, 0.05.
8
Find the mean of 3.95, 0.05, 0.05.
9
Find the mean of 4.25, 0.05, 0.05.
10
Find the mean of 1.15, 1.05, 0.05.
11
Find the mean of 2.60, 0.05, 0.05.
12
Find the mean of 4.40, 0.05, 0.05.
13
Find the mean of 3.65, 0.05, 0.05.
14
Find the mean of 5.60, 0.05, 0.05.
15
Find the mean of 5.60, 0.05, 0.05.
16
Find the mean of 4.40, 0.05, 0.05.
17
Find the mean of 3.90, 0.70, 0.05.
18
Find the mean of 2.60, 0.35, 0.05.
19
Find the mean of 6.35, 0.05, 0.05.
20
Find the mean of 2.45, 0.05, 0.05.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 0.05 to 7.25.
Every problem in it will average values that are decimals.
A careful solution takes 4 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: that is the total of all 3 values.
Answers are a decimal.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 95 different ones, 40% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

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