With penalties and minimum withdrawal requirements to consider, timing is of the utmost importance when taking money from your IRA. (Getty Images) Individual retirement accounts, commonly known as IRAs, are retirement fund staples for many people.
In statistics, the mean is the mathematical average of a set of numbers. The average is calculated by adding up two or more scores and dividing the total by the number of scores. Consider the following number set: 2, 4, 6, 9, 12. The average is calculated in the following manner: 2 + 4 + 6 + 9 + 12 = 33 / 5 = 6.6.
Your score on a given test is based on a raw score and adjusted to a scale that ranges from 100 to 200 points. 1  Your raw score is the number of questions you answer correctly. You donât lose any points for answering a question incorrectly. If you were to answer every single question incorrectly, your raw score would be 0, which is exactly what it would be if you didnât answer any questions at all.