The phrase "average of the five" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the mean value calculated from a set of five numbers or items.
Example: "To find the average of the five test scores, add them together and divide by five."
Alternatives: "mean of the five" or "average value of the five".
The commission calculated that Stein had 3.2% support in an average of the five selected polls.
RCP always takes a straight average of the five most recent polls that were conducted.
When it comes to school, the old maxim "you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with" seems to ring true.
The $4.253 million Porcher will receive for signing the one-year tender is the average of the five highest-paid National Football League defensive ends in 1999.
That player receives a one-year tender for the average of the five largest salaries at his position from the previous season.
Its Champion Saver currently pays 2.61%, based on the average of the five highest 'competitor rates', as taken from the Moneyfacts website.
Portugal, which cross-references by taking an average of the five cheapest prices of a drug in other countries, is one of many nations that do this.
In Belgium, Britain, the Netherlands and Norway, some operators had rates at least twice as high as the average of the five cheapest.
As a decent alternative for instant-access accounts, you could try High 5 from Investec which pays the average of the five highest savings rates in the market, currently 3.29% AER (as calculated by Moneyfacts).
The Cowboys agreed to pay the 6-foot-7, 335-pound Adams a one-year salary in 2002 equal to the average of the five highest-paid offensive linemen in the N.F.L. -- $4.92 million.
Even the benchmark return the CEFC is to adopt is the equivalent of an average of the five year government bond rate, which has a yield today of just 2.8%.
