Finding the average of an array using JS [duplicate]
With ES6 you can turn Andy's solution into as a one-liner:
const average = (array) => array.reduce((a, b) => a + b) / array.length;
console.log(average([1,2,3,4,5]));You calculate an average by adding all the elements and then dividing by the number of elements.
var total = 0;
for(var i = 0; i < grades.length; i++) {
total += grades[i];
}
var avg = total / grades.length;
The reason you got 68 as your result is because in your loop, you keep overwriting your average, so the final value will be the result of your last calculation. And your division and multiplication by grades.length cancel each other out.