Word problems about the mean

Difficulty Starter · Set w57cm2

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Over 6 days a shop sold 5, 2, 8, 5, 3, 1 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
2
Over 6 days a shop sold 9, 1, 9, 6, 4, 1 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
3
Over 3 days a shop sold 3, 2, 7 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
4
Over 6 days a shop sold 1, 4, 8, 7, 3, 1 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
5
Over 3 days a shop sold 2, 4, 6 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
6
Over 5 days a shop sold 5, 1, 4, 6, 9 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
7
Over 4 days a shop sold 7, 5, 3, 1 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
8
Over 5 days a shop sold 9, 2, 10, 3, 1 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
9
Over 6 days a shop sold 6, 2, 6, 6, 1, 3 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
10
Over 3 days a shop sold 3, 6, 6 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
11
Over 6 days a shop sold 9, 5, 4, 1, 3, 8 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
12
Over 5 days a shop sold 1, 3, 3, 7, 6 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
13
Over 6 days a shop sold 6, 7, 5, 9, 1, 2 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
14
Over 5 days a shop sold 6, 10, 7, 1, 1 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
15
Over 6 days a shop sold 6, 6, 1, 2, 8, 1 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
16
Over 6 days a shop sold 9, 1, 2, 5, 3, 10 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
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Over 3 days a shop sold 8, 3, 4 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
18
Over 5 days a shop sold 2, 10, 6, 2, 5 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
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Over 4 days a shop sold 1, 4, 7, 4 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?
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Over 5 days a shop sold 6, 7, 2, 4, 1 cakes. What was the mean number of cakes a day?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 14.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: that is the total over all the days; the mean shares that total between the days.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 219 different ones, 91% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 6 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.