How do you find the average of a number?

Answer 1

There's no such thing as the average of a single number.

Well, no, technically that's not true. The average of a single number would be the

same number. That's why "average" is pretty useless for a single number, and it's

never used that way.

Average means: You have this bunch of numbers ... two or more ... and they can be all

different. You want to find some single number that if every one of the bunch was that

number, they would all add up to the same total as they do now.

Like, say the bunch of numbers is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. They all add up to 15. Their average is 3,

because if every one of them were 3, they would still add up to 3+3+3+3+3 = 15.

How you find the average of a bunch of numbers: Add them all up, and divide the result

by how many numbers there are in the bunch.

So I guess the average of one single number is: Add it all up, and divide by 1. That's

why the average of a single number is the number itself.