Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:24:37 -0000 From: "SAABurger" <furnyburgernospamorld.com> Subject: Re: 9000 Fuel consumption - units
OK if I must. "Average" is a big word! My maths teacher threw this one at the class when I was about 13 .... so a couple of years ago now ;-) Differences won't occur if you do the calculations correctly. Sigma(distance) / Sigma(fuel) and Sigma(fuel) / Sigma(distance) Or regard them as weighted averages if you like. Adrian "Johannes H Andersen" <johsnospamfitter.com> wrote in message news:403F6BC7.6CC36B7nospamfitter.com... > > > Johannes H Andersen wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Exercise: > > > > Two cars A and B are compared. Several consumption test were made and > > the results were averaged. When km/litres was used in the tests, it was > > found that car A was more economical than car B. But when litres/100 km > > was used, they found that car B was the more economical than car A? > > No takers?
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