What is the mean of the first five natural numbers?
Answer: C
The first five natural numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
The mean (average) is the sum of the numbers divided by the count of the numbers.
Sum = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15.
Count = 5.
Mean = \(\frac{15}{5} = 3\).