The Arithmetic Mean is just the average of numbers. In this program we will see how we can find the arithmetic mean from a set of numbers. The function will take the number set, and the number of elements. Out task is just adding each element, then divide it by number of elements that are passed.
Algorithm
arithmeticMean(dataset, n)
begin sum := 0 for each element e from dataset, do sum := sum + e done return sum/n end
Example
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
float arithmetic_mean(float data[], int size) {
float sum = 0;
for(int i = 0; i<size; i++) {
sum += data[i];
}
return sum/size;
}
main() {
float data_set[] = {25.3, 45.21, 78.56, 96.21, 22.12, 36.97};
cout << "Mean: " << arithmetic_mean(data_set, 6);
}Output
Mean: 50.7283