What's the average of 5 MPG and 10 MPG?
The math isn't quite obvious to me, but if you go out camping and get 5 MPG on the way to the campground and turn around and get 10 MGP on the way back, your average MPG won't be 7.5 as you would expe...
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holstein13 wrote:
..........On edit: I'm not complaining about fuel mileage at all. This is a theoretical situation, not an actual report of MPGs. I'm just commenting on how odd it is that you can't average MPGs together.
On second edit: Some people seem to be thinking that I'm complaining about fuel mileage. I'm not. Really, I'm not complaining about fuel mileage. I agree, you shouldn't complain about fuel mileage and I really, truly would never complain about fuel mileage. I'm talking about math here and how you can't average MPG averages. It's a quirk of math only. That's my only point. Really, I swear. I am not complaining about actual fuel consumption of any recreational vehicle.
Maybe if you used 15 mpg and 20 mpg in you're example you wouldn't feel so guilty. :B
