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Re: The table shows, for each of 10 Irish weather stations and each of 8 c [#permalink]
 
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3. In at least one year from 1961 through 2000, the station at Valentia recorded 2 or more days of snowfall in a single calendar month.
Valentia had average rainfall of 1.3 and 1.4 in Jan and Feb. If rainfall was recorded on only one day each Feb every year, then the average would be 1 or less.
But 1.3 means, there were some years when the rains were there on at least 2 days.
Must be true


 

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I didn't get your 3rd explaination: Why If rainfall was recorded on only one day each Feb every year, then the average would be 1 or less?
Can you explain this in a bit detail
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3. In at least one year from 1961 through 2000, the station at Valentia recorded 2 or more days of snowfall in a single calendar month.
Valentia had average rainfall of 1.3 and 1.4 in Jan and Feb. If rainfall was recorded on only one day each Feb every year, then the average would be 1 or less.
But 1.3 means, there were some years when the rains were there on at least 2 days.
Must be true


 

­chetan2u
I didn't get your 3rd explaination: Why If rainfall was recorded on only one day each Feb every year, then the average would be 1 or less?
Can you explain this in a bit detail
­

Jan and feb have an average of 1.3 and 1.4. Let us take Feb.
average of 1.3 days means rainfall was 1.3 *40 or 52 days.
We can distribute 40 out of these 52 days 1 per year. But what happens to remaining 52-40 or 12 days. They have to be adjusted in these 40 years, so some day would surely have rain more run 1 day.­
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The table shows, for each of 10 Irish weather stations and each of 8 c [#permalink]
chetan2u wrote:
Sans8 wrote:
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@chetan2u

3. In at least one year from 1961 through 2000, the station at Valentia recorded 2 or more days of snowfall in a single calendar month.
Valentia had average rainfall of 1.3 and 1.4 in Jan and Feb. If rainfall was recorded on only one day each Feb every year, then the average would be 1 or less.
But 1.3 means, there were some years when the rains were there on at least 2 days.
Must be true


 

­chetan2u
I didn't get your 3rd explaination: Why If rainfall was recorded on only one day each Feb every year, then the average would be 1 or less?
Can you explain this in a bit detail
­

Jan and feb have an average of 1.3 and 1.4. Let us take Feb.
average of 1.3 days means rainfall was 1.3 *40 or 52 days.
We can distribute 40 out of these 52 days 1 per year. But what happens to remaining 52-40 or 12 days. They have to be adjusted in these 40 years, so some day would surely have rain more run 1 day.­

­Hi Chetan, ­chetan2u

I still am not able to understand where did you get this 40 or 52 logic­
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Sans8 wrote:
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@chetan2u

3. In at least one year from 1961 through 2000, the station at Valentia recorded 2 or more days of snowfall in a single calendar month.
Valentia had average rainfall of 1.3 and 1.4 in Jan and Feb. If rainfall was recorded on only one day each Feb every year, then the average would be 1 or less.
But 1.3 means, there were some years when the rains were there on at least 2 days.
Must be true


 

­chetan2u
I didn't get your 3rd explaination: Why If rainfall was recorded on only one day each Feb every year, then the average would be 1 or less?
Can you explain this in a bit detail
­
Jan and feb have an average of 1.3 and 1.4. Let us take Feb.
average of 1.3 days means rainfall was 1.3 *40 or 52 days.
We can distribute 40 out of these 52 days 1 per year. But what happens to remaining 52-40 or 12 days. They have to be adjusted in these 40 years, so some day would surely have rain more run 1 day.­

­

The average days are 1.3 per year. So over 40 years , total days it rained would be 1.3*40 or 52 days.
If you try to minimise rain per year, you will distribute one day per year, so 40 days out of 52 days gone. But what about remaining 52-40 or 12 days. If you distribute these to some months, surely some month would have at least 2 days rain.

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Re: The table shows, for each of 10 Irish weather stations and each of 8 c [#permalink]
Why is it that it cannot rain for 1.3 days in a particular month, why are we assuming that it necessarily has to be a full day of rain

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