Question

why do we use averages ? are their any limitations to their use ? illustrate with an example​

Answer 1

Answer:

we use averages because they are useful for comparing different quantities of different categories. for for example to compute the per capita income of the country averages are to be used because there are differences in incomes of diverse people. However there are limitations of usage of averages. This does not show the distribution of things between people. for an example if a country has very high per capita income then we can't say that the citizen living in the country are very rich because we are not knowing distribution of wealth in the country. some people maybe richer and other maybe more poor in that country.

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Answer 2

We use averages because they are useful for comparing differing quantities of the same category.

For example, to compute the per capita income of a country, averages have to be used because there are differences in the incomes of diverse people. However, there are limitations to the use of averages. This does not show the distribution of thing between people. For an example, suppose in a country, the annual income of a rickshaw puller is Rs 8,000 while an MNC employee earns an annual package of Rs 12,00,000. The average income of this country, therefore, will be Rs 6,05,000. Here actual income or status remains unknown. One can clearly consider this as a rich country thereby ignoring the income disparity between two individuals. Averages are useful for comparison, they also hide disparities.