Mr Adi types up a short story.
It takes him 9 minutes to finish typing up the story at an average of 40
words per minute.
Mr Blade also types up the same story.
He takes 12 minutes to type it.
Work out Mr Blade's average number of words per minute.
...... words per minute

Respuesta :

The average rate at which Mr. Blade types is 30 words per minute.

Average or mean is a measure of central tendency where it defines the central number of a data set.

Average is calculated by dividing the total sum of the values of the dat set divided by the frequency or the number of data in the set.

Mr. Adi takes 9 minutes.

The average rate of Mr. Adi is 40 words per minute.

So in 9 minutes he writes 40 × 9 = 360 words in total.

Mr. Blade typed the same number of words.

he took 12 minutes to type it.

So average rate = total words typed ÷ time taken (in minutes)

Average rate= 360 ÷ 12 =30 words per minute.

Hence Mr. Blade writes at the average rate of 30 words per minute.

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