A super market promotion, a big display promoting bacon. One pound per pack. Eight rashers in the pack. But on close inspection there is some small print....the eight rashers is just an 'average'.
So the promise is only as good as an average of eight rashers. So maybe more or less rashers. So 7 rashers is 12.5% difference, that's quite a big discrepancy, although technically of course the pack is sold by weight. And that would assume it's an exact weight, which must be tricky to get right.
That creates some interesting maths opportunities...suffice it to say that depending on how the average is calculated that could mean lots lets bacon. Excuse the pun.
So a median average of eight could be achieved by having 1000 packs with 7 with rashers and 1001 with eight rashers..... That's a thousand missing rashers or the equivalent of 125 packs (of eight).
