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.
Who developed the airplane? The first controlled flight in what we know now as an airplane was on December 14, 1903 flown by Orville Wright who was airborne for 12 seconds.