This text provides 300 fascinating averages from a wide variety of subject areas. It covers everything - from the ordinary to the bizarre. A subject index helps to locate information quickly. For example, facts are provided in the form of the following: the average time a person waits in line at the grocery store (eight minutes); the average size of a Japanese home (650 square feet - that's less than one half the size of the average home); and the average amount of plastic "peanuts" used for packaging in the United States every year (250 million cubic feet - enough to fill ten 85-story skyscrapers). Pop quizzes are included in the book to encourage the reader to test their knowledge of what is average.
