A local garden club had 14 members with a mean age of 34. Then two new members joined. One was 24 years old, and the other was 36 years old. How did the mean age change after they joined?

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Aedan Ramos

Mathematics

24 November, 11:53

A local garden club had 14 members with a mean age of 34. Then two new members joined. One was 24 years old, and the other was 36 years old. How did the mean age change after they joined?

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Clelia · Answer 1

Answer:it decreased

Madilyn Henderson · Answer 2

Without knowing the ages of all the different members of the club, I believe that the mean would go down due to 24 being an outlier. You generally take the mean by adding up all the numbers and dividing by all the # of given values. Outliers such as 24 would skew the results leaning none way or the other, in this case making it lower than the previous mean.