Now letâs see what we get when we do the math. The mean of this new data set would be the sum of the values ($690,000) divided by the number of values (11). This gives you a mean or average salary for the accounting department of $62,727.
Forget Orville Wright and his brother Wilbur. Start thinking instead of Alberto Santos Dumont, the Brazilian pioneer aviator and the man who really invented the aeroplane. That is the attitude here in Brazil, as the country prepares to celebrate the centenary tomorrow of the world's first powered flight.
The first recorded use of the term aviator (aviateur in French) was in 1887, as a variation of aviation, from the Latin avis (meaning bird), coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation AÃ©rienne (Aviation or Air Navigation).