Why you so mean

What is the mean of all even integers from 123 to 987?


The answer is 555.

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18 solutions

Andhika Rahardian
Oct 13, 2013

Very easy ,

The even integers from 123 123 to 987 987 is 124 , 126 , 128.... , 984 , 986 124,126,128....,984,986 .

Lets Consider 124 124 is A A and 986 986 is B B

so the Arithmatic Mean is A + B 2 \frac{A+B}{2}

And we got 1110 2 \frac{1110}{2} = 555 \boxed{555}

Good approach which doesn't require us to find the sum of all the terms, or even the number of terms.

Could be explained slightly clearly, by saying that all of the terms could be paired up.

Calvin Lin Staff - 7 years, 7 months ago

thanks for your suggestion... will do it next time :D

Andhika Rahardian - 7 years, 7 months ago

Not saying anything about how the number of terms will affect the result. Otherwise OK

Chandrachur Banerjee - 7 years, 7 months ago
Rakhmat Muliawan
Oct 13, 2013

(123 + 987)/ 2 = 555

Why did you take ( 123 + 987 ) / 2 = 555 ( 123 + 987)/2 = 555 ? How does this deal with "even integers"?

Calvin Lin Staff - 7 years, 7 months ago

Ya! i have made the same mistake. But the answer will be same.

Ayon Pal - 7 years, 7 months ago

I think it may be (124+986)/2=555

Raiyun Razeen - 7 years, 1 month ago
Marcos Oliveira
Jan 3, 2014
  • primeiro vou ver qual o total de números que eu tenho: ------> 987 - 123 = 864

    total = 864 + 1 = 865

  • agora vou descobrir quantos numero pares eu tenho nesse intervalo: visto que 1 até 10 temos 5 números pares, utiliza-se esse racicínio para obtermos a quantidade

quantidade = 479 números pares

  • agora vamos pegar a somatória desses números pares:

somatória = 479 ( 123 + 987 ) 2 \frac{479(123 + 987)}{2}

  • O resultado da média será :

Média = s o m a t o ˊ r i a q u a n t i d a d e \frac{somatória}{quantidade} = 555 \boxed{555}

The even numbers between 123 to 987 are : 124 , 126 .......... 984 , 986 . Let us consider 124 as A & 986 as B The arithmetic mean = /frac{ 124 + 986 }{ 2 } So the answer is 550

how the answer is 550

Girija lenka - 7 years, 7 months ago
Pearly Mitnasala
Oct 14, 2013

find thhe no: of terms using the a.p's nth term formula and then use the summation formula 555 :)

Classic approach

Chandrachur Banerjee - 7 years, 7 months ago
Kobe Bryant Pe
Oct 13, 2013

the no. of numbers= (987-123)+1=865 get the mean term= 865/2=432.5or 433rd term a 433=123+(433-1)1 a 433=123+432 a_433=555 mean=555

Flawless

Chandrachur Banerjee - 7 years, 7 months ago
Iranna Hubballi
Mar 17, 2014

123+987=1110 1110/2=555

Primeiramente verifico quantos números são divisíveis por dois de 1 até 986, são 493. Depois verifico quantos números são divisíveis por 2 de 1 até 123, são 61. Logo diminuo 987 por 61 e obtenho 432 números divisíveis por dois de 123 até 987. Depois é só fazer a soma de todos esses números e então obtenho 239,760 e então divido por 432 obtendo 555, que é a média desejada.

as the range is [123,987],as even number(1st term=124,last term=986,d=2),

by using an arithmetic formulae,

Tn=a+(n-1)d 986=124+(n-1)2 986-124=2n-2 2n=986-124+2 n=864/2=432

so there are 432 terms,so for the mean,find the sum of the 1st 432 terms, =432/2 x (2(124)+(431)2) =239760

so for the mean, =239760/432 =555

Easy way 987+123=1110÷2=555

Fayo Fash - 7 years, 3 months ago
Siddharth Shah
Nov 17, 2013

Series of all even integers from 123 to 987 is an arithmetic progression. Hence the A.M of all elements of this series = first term + last term/2 . That is (124+986)/2=555

Andy X
Oct 19, 2013

Between 124 and 986 are (986-124)/2 = 431 even numbers. You can write a finite arithmetic sum which is (431(124+986))/2 which gives us the sum of all those even numbers, 239,205. Then you divide that by the number of even numbers and get 555.

Samarth Agarwal
Oct 18, 2013

This is a arithmetic mean: 124+126+128......986. 124+(124+2)+(124+2*2)+......+986. a=124,d=2,n=481. Therefore,s=n/2[a+l] where l is the last number of the series. mean=s/n.This implies that mean=[a+l]/2. mean=[124+986]/2 =1110/2 =555.

Girija Lenka
Oct 17, 2013

124+987=1110 mean = 1110/2 = 555

Rui-Xian Siew
Oct 15, 2013

Mean= sum of N numbers divided by N

even numbers from 123 to 987 is from 124 until 986. Sum=N(124+986)/2

Mean=(124+986)/2=1110/2=555

Sonu Kumar Tiwari
Oct 14, 2013

it is just (123+987)/2=555

Ayon Pal
Oct 14, 2013

_The Mean = Sum of the Integers / Numbers of the integer _

Then, Mean = 123 + 987 2 = 1110 2 = 555 \frac{123+987}{2} = \frac{1110}{2} = 555

srry there have a mistake.. Here The all integers is in A.P. So, The mean of first number and last number of the A.P. is the mean of full A.P. series

Ayon Pal - 7 years, 8 months ago
Mohith Manohara
Oct 14, 2013

The mean of all numbers is the same as the mean of only the even numbers. Since 123 + 987 = 1110 123+987=1110 , adding all numbers in between will give you some multiple of 1110. However, we are adding 2 numbers to get 1110, so to find the mean we divide by 2 to get 555 \boxed{555}

Rajachowdary Raj
Oct 14, 2013

There are 432 even numbers begining from 124 ending at 986 with a common differnece of 2..giving a sum of 239760.On dividing with 432 we get the answer as 555

Disastrous approach if applied in exams

Chandrachur Banerjee - 7 years, 7 months ago

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