Jon loves to go bird watching at a nearby animal sanctuary. Find the mean of the following numbers of birds he spotted at the sanctuary in the last few days.
The arithmetic mean of a distribution is the sum of the number of samples in the distribution divided by the number of samples in the dataset. It is a measure of central tendency. The mean is represented as follows:
[tex]\bar x = \frac{\sum x}{n} \\where\\\bar x = mean\\\sum x = sum\ of\ individual\ terms\\n = number\ of\ terms\\\therefore \bar x = \frac{14\ +\ 10\ +\ 17\ +\ 11\ +\ 9\ +\ 15\ +\ 6\ +\ 14}{8}\\\bar x = \frac{96}{8} \\\bar x = 12[/tex]
