Getting Average

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How excatly do I calculate the average? Can somebody explain step by step process of how to get an average?

If I have an array of numbers (5, 3, 4, 3, 1) and so on. And I need to get the average of these numbers on a scale of 5 what is the equation of doing this?

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To average a list of numbers, add up all the numbers and then divide by the size of your list.

For your example, we'd get $$ \frac{5+3+4+3+1}{5} = \frac{16}{5} = 3.2. $$