1Cademy - LLMs Answer ($${}6$$) to the Prompt for Calculating the Average of $${}2$$, $${}4$$, and $${}9$$

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Example of a Prompt for a Direct Mathematical Calculation
Example of a Prompt for Calculating the Average of 2, 4, and 9

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LLM's Answer ( ${}6$ ) to the Prompt for Calculating the Average of ${}2$ , ${}4$ , and ${}9$

When a Large Language Model is directly asked to calculate the average of the numbers ${}2$ , ${}4$ , and ${}9$ without being provided any reasoning steps or demonstrations, it often struggles to arrive at the correct answer. In this zero-shot scenario, the model might incorrectly output an answer like ${}6$ , demonstrating that finding the correct mathematical solution directly is difficult without a step-by-step problem-solving path.