Question P6 An average is a total
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A bar graph shows the amount donated by five market stalls to a charity drive. Stall A donated $12.50, Stall B donated $8.50, Stall C donated $15.00, Stall D donated $9.00, and Stall E donated $10.00. What is the average donation per stall?
Answer
The average donation per stall was $11.00.
Turn the average back into a total before doing anything with it.
In this one. An average is not read off the tallest or the middle bar — it is the total shared equally: add every value first, then divide by how many there are.
The word 'average' appears alongside a group being split into two parts, or two separate journeys or trips being combined into one overall figure.
Children average two averages directly, such as averaging two speeds or two group averages, without weighting by how many, or how long, each part actually covers.
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